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b. Planning Department assumes oversight of Transportation Planning <br />Town Manager <br />Planning Board J <br />r i Planning Director <br />Senior Planner PT Planner Department Clerk <br />22 hr /wk. — currently 15 <br />Service Enhancements: <br />A focus on all transportation planning issues will provide the town with a broader <br />view of what is happening, as well as making coordination easier. Currently there is <br />a 15 hr. / week position in the Planning Department budget. This position has been <br />left unfilled while different options for the duties and responsibilities of the <br />position were being explored. These hours will go toward a more robust position <br />that has transportation planning as the primary responsibility, we anticipate <br />approximately 60% of this employees time will be spent on transportation <br />planning. This means that transportation planning will now be a defined <br />responsibility of the Planning Department. In the past the responsibility has been <br />so diffuse (i.e. Planning, DPW, Selectmen, various boards and committees) that it <br />was never anyone's priority and was done as time allowed or a looming issue <br />demanded. By placing this responsibility within the Planning Department it will <br />facilitate coordination with development proposals, especially in light of the <br />Transportation Management Overlay District on Hartwell Ave. <br />6 <br />