August 25, 2025, Planning Board Special Meeting Transcript - WEHI

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 87 So for, again, and I'm not saying that your information is not valuable, it is just that it's not expert testimony and it can be used as basic public comment. Somebody who worked in the area, I see this, I know that, I saw this, as opposed to these are the criteria that anybody could use to judge this, it is set by standard or by ordinance or by law, which is not what we're talking about here. This is somebody who looked at things, worked in the area, I understand that, but the board has to have expert information based on the zone plan and the state plan. So the state planning board has testified, doesn't tell us this is not an area or it is an area, that's why we're listening to all this information. So I am going to ask our counsel to weigh in on this. MS. MCGOVERN: Okay. So I have -- my biggest issue is this testimony sounds like it was testimony that should have been presented at the time when the ordinance was being developed, because it's a change to the ordinance itself. MR. AFRAN: That was not our purpose. The purpose here -- MS. MCGOVERN: Let me finish. Okay. So if you're trying to -- the board can't void out this ordinance because environmentally they think it has a