Deerfield Planning Board Approves Final ADU Bylaw Draft, Sets August Public Hearing
Deerfield Planning Board votes 7-0 to finalize accessory dwelling unit zoning bylaw draft.
Planning Board · Meeting of July 13, 2026
Deerfield Planning Board votes 7-0 to finalize accessory dwelling unit zoning bylaw draft. The board, meeting July 13 in hybrid format, accepted the revised bylaw, governing ADUs under state regulations, as its final draft following a detailed line-by-line review with town counsel Lisa Mead, who joined remotely. Mead directed four changes: relocating a parking reduction waiver from the general parking section into the ADU section, deleting a redundant non-conformity sentence from the definitions, removing a provision on accessible unit deviations as unnecessary under the building code, and striking a one-unit rental restriction she said the state Attorney General's office "will get stricken." The board scheduled a public hearing for August 3 and is targeting a special town meeting no sooner than October 13, after an October 6 Franklin Tech regional school vote.
The board also voted 6-0 to extend the site plan review approval for the Friends of Franklin County Regional Dog Shelter at 0 Greenfield Road through August 21, 2027.
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Source: the Planning Board meeting of July 13, 2026, reported from the official video recording and transcript.
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