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Master Plan Sub Committee Notes
January 23rd, 2013
CARROLL PLANNING BOARD
MASTER PLAN SUB-COMMITTEE
Notes of January 17, 2013
Present were Ken Mills, Tara Bamford (North Country Council), George Brodeur (CIP Committee), Evan Karpf (Planning Board), Joan Karpf (Conservation Commission), and Linda Dowling (Land Use Boards’ Secretary)
2:00 PM Discussion started. Mr. Mills said after researching what was involved in updating a Master Plan and looking at the attempts to update it over the years, he came to the conclusion that the sub-committee nor any other group could accomplish the task without assistance. He contacted North Country Council and spoke with Tara regarding how to proceed. After some discussion with her, he felt that a combination, a partnership between the Town of Carroll and North Country Council, would achieve the best results.
Ms. Bamford said she has done Master Plans in two ways. One way was to update the original. The second way was to write a more readable narrative that would focus more on policy than specific data. She said either way, the cost for her services would be around $15,000.00. Any overage would be absorbed by other means available to North Country Council. As a further breakdown of the first option, Ms. Bamford said, different groups or individuals could write different parts of the Master Plan and she would just put it together. She will develop an al la carte menu of costs for the Sub-committee. The narrative type would be consistent in writing style since she would write the entire Plan. She said many times the update method gave too much information, people don’t read it and the areas within it don’t inter-relate
Mr. Mills said he would like to take these options to the Planning Board for their input as to which model to use. It was decided to take the question regarding what option to use for the style of the Master Plan to the Planning Board at their February 7, 2013 meeting and send an e-mail to the members asking that they read the current Master Plan before the meeting. Also in the communication with the Planning Board members, a request that they explore the links Mr. Mills had provided in earlier e-mails regarding Mater Plans from other towns.
It was stressed by Ms. Bamford that community involvement was imperative. Discussion took place regarding a survey. Mr. Mills will merge the voter registration list with the landowners list, take out duplications and come up with a number for the amount of surveys that would need to be mailed. Ms. Bamford said, the mailing would be included in the $15,000.00. Mr. Mills noted that the Town of Bethlehem did a 6 page survey. Ms. Bamford said that the survey should
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be 1 page, 1 sided with no essay questions. She said North Country Council would help develop the survey.
Discussion turned to the election and the present warrant article requesting $15,000.00 to update the Master Plan. A visioning session with the public at a Planning Board meeting was a way to answer questions regarding what the community values and what it sees as important needs.
How to defend the warrant article request at the Deliberative Session was discussed. Since the tax rate increase was on most people’s mind it was suggested that an argument for the Master Plan could be, it would be the basis for a capital expenditure plan to map the needs of the Town over time going forward which could be used to stabilize the tax rate and eliminate the spikes we now see.
It was decided to schedule a Master Plan meeting for outreach for March 7, 2013 at 5:30 PM. Dr. Karpf will contact Edith Tucker regarding a Public Service Announcement for the meeting and the Selectmen will be asked to promote this meeting at the Selectmen’s meeting. The Selectmen will be asked to contact channel 2 to request broadcast of this Planning Board meeting before the election.
Ms. Bamford will have an electronic copy of the Master Plan sent to Ms. Dowling who will forward it to the Planning Board members.
Mr. Brodeur’s appointment to the Master Plan sub-committee will be put on the Planning Board’s agenda for February 7, 2013.
It was agreed that even if the warrant article was defeated, the effort to up-date the Master Plan would continue.
3:30 PM Discussion ended.
Respectfully submitted,
Linda J. Dowling
Secretary
Carroll Planning Board