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  • How new Winchester zoning articles could speed up your next project

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Today's riddle: What is clean when it is black and dirty when it is white? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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📰 News we're reading

• Planning Board outlines Town Meeting articles (homenewshere.com) — Winchester's Planning Board is bringing three zoning and permitting articles to Town Meeting that could simplify home and business projects. Proposals include easing frontage and lot-width rules, eliminating a redundant design review subcommittee, moving to electronic application submissions, and combining certain hearings, which officials say will streamline approvals and improve "customer service" for residents and developers.
   

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