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should we be telling people what to do,” she added. At the council’s meeting on Sept. 26, Goodine steadfastly opposed expansion of the ordinances.

Currently, only changes to town residents’ property that can be seen from a public street require permission from the architectural review board.

For council member Claudia Mitchell, extending the ordinances would be the fair thing to do — the rules would equally cover all town residents, rather than some more than others based on how much of their property is visible from a public street.

“If you seriously walk around, you will see many structures that 100 percent of their structures are under ARB,” she said. “If everybody is on the same level playing field, I think it would be simpler for everybody.”

Council member John Sullivan noted that with the ordinances limited to what can be seen from a public street, he legally could have done just about anything to the back of his historic cabin.

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