HALIFAX — Voters on Tuesday narrowly voted to keep their town's zoning regulations in place.
According to Town Clerk Patricia Dow, the tally was 148 against repeal, 126 favoring repeal, with three blank ballots.
The vote was prompted by a public petition that circulated in town earlier this year after the Zoning Board of Adjustment last year denied a conditional use permit to Russell Denison to construct and operate a schist quarry in Halifax's Conservation District.
Proponents of repeal said that the current zoning regulations were too complicated and restrictive for a small town. Those that favored maintaining the current regulations cited local control, clarity, and flexibility as reasons to have zoning bylaws.