I thought the towns Planning Board protects us from over-development problems ?
When a landowner approaches the Planning Board, they have certain rights. This is important. A land owner owns his/her land and deserve to control its future. Therefore, when a land owning developer approaches the Planning Board, it is already to late to slow or stop development. The developer owns the land and has the right to subdivided. The subdivision will be done, new homes will be built. Through it valiant efforts, the Planning Board works to lessen the degree of over-development. But, it is restricted. With the Land Bank, we hope to slow the development by removing the number of items the Planning board will work on. If we wait for the land owning developer to approach the Planning Board, we are already behind the eight ball.
