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174-8.9. WFP Wetland and Floodplain District. |
The Wetland
and Floodplain (WFP) District is considered to be an overlay
district, superimposed on other districts. Any uses permitted
in the portions of other districts so overlaid are permitted
and may be continued, but no new buildings, structures, earth
relocation or excavation or fill shall be permitted, except
as is otherwise specifically permitted in the Schedule of
Use Regulations and except that dwellings, farm buildings
and buildings and structures accessory thereto may be expanded
in ground coverage by not more than twenty-five percent (25%)
compared to the area covered by all buildings on a lot as
of October 8, 1985. The expansion of accessory structures
shall require a special permit from the Board of Appeals,
as shall the relocation or new construction of ways and the
alteration of watercourses, water bodies and dams. In Wetland
and Floodplain Districts, fill, earth relocation, new uses
and structures or expansions thereof permissible in the underlying
district may be permitted by the Board of Appeals by special
permit upon referral to the Board of Health, Conservation
Commission and Planning Board and a finding that the land
is not subject to flooding or otherwise unsuitable for the
proposed structures or uses and that, according to a certificate
signed by a registered professional engineer, there will be
no increase in one-hundred-year flood levels as a result of
the special permit.
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