Council hears budget gap grows $1M a year
Amherst Town Council heard a presentation warning the town's expenses are outpacing revenue by about $1 million a year.
Amherst Town Council heard a presentation warning the town's expenses are outpacing revenue by about $1 million a year.
Amherst's Town Council adopted a clean energy bylaw and doubled its solar setback for private wells. The council voted 7-5 to raise the no-disturbance buffer between solar arrays and private wells from 100 feet to 200 feet, then adopted the full Article 18 bylaw 12-0, with Councilor Walker absent.
The Amherst Town Council brainstormed zoning priorities for roughly 200 acres of the Hampshire College campus, with no formal votes beyond adjournment.
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