A little bit of information...

The Planning Board and ZBA (Zoning Board of Appeals) welcomes receiving public input about projects - interested parties can provide written letters of comment which will become part of the official case file, call and/or stop into the office with questions, and/or attend a public meeting. The files are available for viewing in the Community Development Office.

Some projects link to coUrbanize.com. It is a very useful platform, but comments on the coUrbanize pages are not official comments to the Boards. To make an official comment, please email, mail, or hand in comments to the Planning Department.

Please feel free to comment if you don't have objections to a project in your neighborhood, or if you support a project. If 499 people don't have any objection, but don't voice it, and one person does, and they do, we only hear that one objection.

If you are interested in past projects/cases you may find them filtered by its decision and fiscal year in the blue boxes above. 

Each project reviewed by the ZBA is given a Case Number. This number is to aid in the quick look up of projects. Here is what the parts of the number mean- Case Number XXY-ZZ : the XX notes what kind of application it is, Special Permit (SP), a Variance (VA), or an Appeal (AP); the Y stands for the project number; and the last two digits ZZ is the fiscal year. 

Example :  VA15-18 would be a Variance, the 15th application received that fiscal year, received in Fiscal Year 2018.

If you are looking for an older case that is not listed above, please stop by Town Hall or request Planning Department files by emailing Alvaro Esparza at aesparza@ashlandmass.com