{"id":10649,"date":"2025-05-21T04:36:52","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T08:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/?p=10649"},"modified":"2025-05-21T04:52:51","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T08:52:51","slug":"residents-voice-concerns-over-planned-unit-developments-5-19-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/?p=10649","title":{"rendered":"Video: Residents Voice Concerns Over Planned Unit Developments, 5\/19\/2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Town Council Meeting 5\/19\/2025. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Residents are expressing significant&nbsp;concerns regarding the town&#8217;s Planned Unit Development (PUD) ordinance. One resident outlines several&nbsp;weaknesses in the current ordinance, including ambiguity in criteria, limited public engagement, excessive flexibility allowing broad waivers, the absence of mandatory affordable housing requirements, and a lack of robust enforcement mechanisms. He suggests a&nbsp;temporary suspension and thorough review&nbsp;of the ordinance. Another speaker echoes these sentiments, emphasizing that&nbsp;developers are exploiting the flaws&nbsp;and that the ordinance needs to be paused and fixed. The third speaker, Glenn Douglas, highlights a perceived&nbsp;stalemate between the town council and the planning board&nbsp;regarding the review process for the PUD ordinance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Residents Voice Concerns over Planned Unit Developments, 5\/19\/2025\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/c4PhDytjwCw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Related Posts:<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/?p=10614\">Planning Board Has No Opinion on Zoning Bills<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/?p=10624\">Petition the Governor \u2013 Preserve Local Control<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/?p=10617\">Planned Unit Developments (PUD) Sent to the Planning Board, the Planning Board Send it Back.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Town Council Meeting 5\/19\/2025. Residents are expressing significant&nbsp;concerns regarding the town&#8217;s Planned Unit Development (PUD) ordinance. One resident outlines several&nbsp;weaknesses in the current ordinance, including ambiguity in criteria, limited public engagement, excessive flexibility allowing broad waivers, the absence of mandatory affordable housing requirements, and a lack of robust enforcement mechanisms&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10649"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10654,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10649\/revisions\/10654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}