Orleans Planning Board Presents Draft Comprehensive Plan to Select Board for Town Meeting Orleans Planning Board briefs Select Board on draft 242-page comprehensive plan headed for town meeting.
Orleans Planning Board holds fourth hearing on comprehensive plan. Orleans Planning Board closes its fourth required public hearing on the draft Orleans Comprehensive Plan, a multi-year initiative informed by 150 visioning workshop attendees, 569 survey responses, and three rounds of board and committee input. Planning Director George Meservey presented nine major
Orleans Planning Board Closes Comprehensive Plan Hearing, Targets May Town Meeting Vote Orleans Planning Board unanimously closes fourth public hearing on 2025 Comprehensive Plan, advances document toward May town meeting.
Planning Board reviews draft Comprehensive Plan ahead of Select Board presentation. Planning Board reviews draft Comprehensive Plan through 2050 ahead of Select Board briefing. Chair John Ostman led the hybrid special meeting as board members Debbie Oakes, Lynne Eickholt, Francesca Galazzi, Peter Pohlemus, and Mary Wright examined the Executive Summary. Eickholt and Galazzi noted
Orleans Planning Board flags Executive Summary as lacking urgency ahead of Select Board review Orleans Planning Board calls for stronger growth language in draft Comprehensive Plan 2050. The board met in a hybrid special session February 17 to review the final draft of the Orleans Comprehensive Plan through 2050 before a scheduled February 24 presentation to the Select Board.