Andover's Town Meeting Tackles Pooches To Pot

ANDOVER — Who let the dogs out? Voters at the Andover Town Meeting did.

By a 254-150 vote, Town Meeting on Monday rejected a proposal to ban dogs from the Spring Grove Cemetery, the Eagle- Tribune reports.

Instead, Town Meeting approved an article that allows dogs to be walked in the cemetery on a leash and with pet owners promising to clean up after Fido.

In other business:

Town Meeting approved a moratorium on businesses selling marijuana until December 2018.

An article allowing a restaurant selling coffee and breakfast sandwiches from a drive-thru window was defeated due to the zoning precedent it would set.

An article was approved that stopped a municipal services facility from being built on a capped landfill on Ledge Road until a future Town Meeting has a chance to vote on its environmental impacts.

The town DPW director noted that without the facility, Andover would have to pay $130,000 a year to ship street sweepings somewhere else to be processed, the Eagle- Tribune reports.

But voters agreed the environmental impacts have not been adequately discussed by residents.

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