A little more than two years after appointing a committee to write the document, the Planning Board last week formally adopted the updated town comprehensive plan.
The panel that has spent the last two years focusing on town's next 20 years engaged in one last discussion about how the town should balance economic growth with environmental protection.
The three-hour meeting was held in an effort to review the current status of the goals set in the 2016 Master Plan and to determine how the town can improve it to better serve its evolving community.
The steering committee, which started its work at the beginning of 2022, may be ready to send a completed plan to the Planning Board for approval as soon as October.
A project manager from the college and an associate planner from Boston design firm Sasaki Associates gave a presentation on Tuesday to the town's Comprehensive Plan Steering Committee.