CONWAY — Last Thursday, the planning board reviewed the first complete draft of an update to the town's zoning ordinance, presented by consultant Judi Barrett of Barrett Planning Group, LLC in Hingham, Mass.
Barrett described it as a structural overhaul rather than simply a rewrite, noting that the current ordinance contains many sections that repeat the same language.
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