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residential zoning districts with approved Site Plan Review. The Planning Board shall adopt and periodically
amend reasonable regulations to implement this bylaw. These regulations are effective when voted.”
Add definition for Accessory Dwelling Unit to Section 10.2 General Bylaw Definitions
“Accessory dwelling unit: a self-contained housing unit, inclusive of sleeping, cooking and sanitary facilities
on the same lot as a principal dwelling, subject to otherwise applicable dimensional and parking
requirements, that: (i) maintains a separate entrance, either directly from the outside or through an entry
hall or corridor shared with the principal dwelling sufficient to meet the requirements of the state building
code for safe egress; (ii) is not larger in gross floor area than 1/2 the gross floor area of the principal dwelling
or 900 square feet, whichever is smaller; and (iii) is subject to such additional restrictions as may be imposed
by a municipality, including, but not limited to, additional size restrictions and restrictions or prohibitions
on short-term rental, as defined in section 1 of chapter 64G; provided, however, that no municipality shall
unreasonably restrict the creation or rental of an accessory dwelling unit that is not a short-term rental.”
ARTICLE 21. To see if the Town will vote to accept Harvestwood Lane as a Town Way, as heretofore laid out by the
Select Board and shown on a plan entitled “Roadway Acceptance Plan Harvestwood Lane off Old Center Street,”
prepared by Outback Engineering, Inc., dated March 3, 2023, said plans on file with the Town Clerk, and to
authorize the Select Board to acquire, on such terms and conditions as the Select Board deems appropriate and by
purchase, gift, and/or eminent domain, the fee in and to and/or easements in said roadway for all purposes for which
public ways may be used and any related drainage, utility, access and/or other easements shown on said plan, or act
on anything thereon.
ARTICLE 22. To see if the Town will vote to reduce the number of members on the Tourism Committee from eleven
(11) to seven (7), or act anything thereon.
ARTICLE 23. To see if the Town will vote to acquire by gift and/or purchase for conservation purposes, to be held
in the care and custody of the Conservation Commission under G.L. Ch. 40 §8C, certain parcels of land including
the structures and fixtures thereon erected, generally described as follows: 52.8 acre portion of the land with
buildings thereon on Precinct Street in Middleborough, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, identified as a portion of
the Assessors as Parcel 23-3732 and shown as a portion of Lot 2 recorded at the Plymouth County Registry of
Deeds in Plan Book 64, Plan 938, and owned currently by Edward J. Medeiros; and further to authorize the
Conservation Commission to accept an Eastern Box Turtle Mitigation Grant in the amount of $405,000.00 from
The Nature Conservancy for the purchase of said land and anything incidental or related thereto, or act anything
thereon.
Given under our hands at Middleborough, this 23rd day of September, 2024
Mark Germain, Chairman
Brian Giovanoni, Vice-Chair
Thomas White
William Pike
Teresa Farley
SELECT BOARD
Pursuant to the instructions contained in the above warrant, I have notified and warned all inhabitants of said Town
of Middleborough, qualified to vote as expressed in said warrant, to meet at the time and place for the
purpose specified by causing an attested copy of the same to be published in the Nemasket Week on the 19th day of
September 2024, that date being more than fourteen days before the time specified for said meeting.
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