Planning Board

Egremont zoning map and property line map for South Egremont Village

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Members

  • Matthew Bersani, Secretary/Treasurer
  • Donna Bersch, Associate
  • Jared Kelly, Chairman
  • Stephen Lyle, Alternate BRPC Delegate
  • Mary McGurn, BRPC Delegate
  • Edward Regendahl, Vice Chairman

Notice of Grant to Address Zoning Bylaws

The Egremont Planning Board has received a grant award of $54,000 from the Massachusetts Department of Housing & Community Development's Community Planning Grant program. Added to the grant is the Town's ARPA match of $6.000. 

The grant will enable the Planning Board to retain a qualified consultant to guide the process of updating the Town's Zoning Bylaws and Zoning Map changes, which are anticipated to result from the Vision 2035 Comprehensive Planning process, now underway.   The new grant will run through at least June 30, 2024.

Planning Board Adopts Egremont's 2023 Comprehensive Plan

The Comprehensive Plan defines the vision, goals, and actions for the next ten to fifteen years. Prior community engagement - two public workshops and two questionnaires - and the input and feedback from the Comprehensive Plan Update Advisory Committee shaped the final draft.

Egremont Comprehensive Plan Adopted August 30, 2023 (PDF

Egremont Comprehensive Plan Final Comments, August 30, 2023 (PDF)

Documents Related to Comprehensive Plan

  1. Comprehensive and Open Space and Recreation Comments on Boards from January 14 2023 Public Workshop (PDF)
  2. Comprehensive and Open Space and Recreation Plans March 11 Workshop Handouts (PDF)
  3. Comprehensive and Open Space and Recretion Plans Public Workshop 2 Discussion Boards (PDF)
  4. Comprehensive Plan Advisory Committee Meeting 20220922 Presentation (PDF)
  5. Comprehensive Plan and Open Space and Recreation Plan Joint Advisory Committees Meeting Presentation 20230215 (PDF)
  6. Comprehensive Plan and Open Space and Recreational Plan Joint Advisory Committee Meeting 20220808 Presentation (PDF)
  7. Egremont Vision 2035 Public Workshop 1 Presentationn Slide Deck (PDF)
  8. Egremont Vision 2035 Public Workshop 1 Talking Boards (PDF)
  9. Map of 2003 Developable Land in Egremont (PDF)
  10. Map of 2003 Egremont Land Use Referencing 1997 (PDF)
  11. Map of 2022 Egremont Land Use (PDF)
  12. Map of 2022 Unique Features in Egremont (PDF)
  13. Map of Open Space and Chapter 61 Lands as of January 2023 (PDF)
  14. Tabulated Results and All Responses from the Comprehensive and Open Space and Recreation Plans Second Community Wide Survey (PDF)
  15. Tabulated Results from Comprehensive Plan and Open Space and Recreation Plan Community Questionnaire 1 (PDF)

PB Functions Required by Statutes

  • To make careful studies,
  • To prepare plans for the resources, possibilities, and needs of the Town,
  • To act as Park Commissioner in the Town if so authorized,
  • To make a Master or Study Plan,
  • To have an official map prepared if authorized by Town Meeting,
  • To review and submit a report regarding the layout, alteration, relocation, or discontinuance of public ways,
  • To report annually to the Town Meeting regarding the condition of the Town

PB Functions Requiring a Public Hearing

  • To hear proposed zoning amendments in accord with Massachusetts General Laws, Chapter 40A, Section 5,
  • To hear and decide applications for special permits as authorized by the Zoning Bylaw, in accord with Section 7,
  • To hear and review site plans as authorized by the Zoning Bylaw,
  • To hear and review subdivision plans as required in accord with Massachusetts General Law, Chapter 41, Sections 81Q and W,
  • To conduct any other hearing required by law.