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Code Enforcement Report for 2025

This office is fully staffed by the following team members: Patti McKenna Dept. Head/ Code Enforcement Officer Kert Jackson – Deputy CEO / Building maintenance Roxanne Gardner – Codes and Planning Administrative Assistant Marcel DesRosiers – Electric Inspector

This office is seeing more Accessory Dwelling Unit applications. It is important to note that last year the town voted to increase the allowed size of an accessory dwelling to 800 square feet of living space. Living space doesn’t include bathrooms, closets, hallways or mechanical rooms. We receive a lot of questions about the new legislation passed this year that requires towns to reduce lot sizes and/or allow more houses on lots. That legislation passed gives towns until July of 2027 to comply with the law. Those required changes will not be in effect in Buxton until town meeting approves the zoning changes. Our plan is to have those ready for the June 2027 town meeting. As I close out the year, I’ve been going through active building permits and finding that quite a few expired permits did not get a final inspection. I notified people and am getting those completed. This is a reminder that all building permits require a final inspection just so that we can document that we inspected. It benefits you if you find yourself in the unfortunate circumstance where you have an insurance claim. Not being able to document inspections is a sure way for the insurance company to justify not paying on a claim. As I am doing these inspections, I have been told several times that “he” came by to verify the construction was finished but didn’t come inside. That was most likely the assessor and doesn’t count for the code office doing an inspection.

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