• Selectmen

• Planning Board

• Board of Adjustment

• Conservation Commission

SELECTMEN

Executive Powers:

• The town's executive branch – they manage the prudential affairs of the town, carrying out the votes enacted at Town Meeting.
• Prepares town warrant and budget.
• Prepares annual report and publishes reports of all other officers.

Substantive:

• Regulation of town highways
• Layout of highways
• Manage and regulate town property.
• License junkyards
• Order demolition of hazardous buildings.
• Act as code enforcement officer.
• Act as health offices
• Enforce the zoning ordinance and other land use regulations, as dictated by those regulations.
• Administer the building permit process.

PLANNING BOARD

Adopt, Amend, Administer:

• Subdivision Regulations
• Site Plan Review Regulations
• Excavation Regulations
• Driveway Regulations
   

Develop and Maintain Master Plan

Amend Zoning Ordinance

Prepare Capital Improvements Program

BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT

• Hear appeals from administrative decisions
• Hear applications for special exemptions in the zoning ordinance.
• Hear appeals for a variance from the terms of the zoning ordinance.
• Grant equitable waivers for dimensional requirements.
• If authorized to act as Building Code Board of Appeals, hear appeals to vary provisions of the building code.

CONSERVATION COMMISSION

• The only local board specifically charged with protection of the natural resources of the municipality.
• May advise the Planning Board or other local bodies on conservation matters.
• Conduct research
• Coordinate activities of unofficial bodies with similar purposes.
• Keep an index of all open space and natural areas in town.
• May undertake to designate, map and document prime wetlands.
• Opportunity to comment on state wetlands permits.
• Opportunity to comment on excavation applications.