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The Day comments on North Stonington voters’ TDR endorsement

NORTH STONINGTON–The Day commented editorially Sept. 10, 2003, that a “town meeting in North Stonington [Sept. 8, 2003] has sent a clear message to the town’s Planning and Zoning Commission. The people want the town to manage its growth so that development doesn’t destroy the community’s rural character.”

The newspaper continued, “Residents not only supported a proposed new Plan of Conservation and Development, but also asked the Planning and Zoning Commission to reinsert provisions it had stricken from the document for a planning tool known as transfer of development rights [TDR]. These rules would add to the town’s toolbox of instruments for managing growth the ability to target new development in already built-up areas of town and to keep it out of rural and picturesque sections.”

It said, “The Planning Commission should heed this advice when it makes the final decision next month.”