Planning Board advances agricultural zoning amendments to Town Meeting
Planning Board · Meeting of September 14, 2026
SOUTH HADLEY — Planning Board clears agricultural zoning rewrite for November town meeting. The board voted 4-0 to advance amendments consolidating agricultural sections and clarifying state-law compliance, with Chair Diane Supczak-Mulvaney, Vice-Chair Bob Szklarz, Clerk Brad Hutchison, and Member Linda Gouin supporting submission to Select Board for November 9 Special Town Meeting. The multi-year revision would allow up to 12 hens in specified districts and establish farm-related-business provisions for outdoor-recreation uses, requiring Planning Board site-plan findings that operations would not adversely affect surrounding areas—a safeguard added after residents objected to potential batting-cage facilities on small parcels.
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Source: the Planning Board meeting of September 14, 2026, reported from the official video recording and transcript.
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