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A planning and zoning commission is a local elected or appointed government board charged with recommending to the local town or city council the boundaries of the various original zoning districts and appropriate regulations to be enforced therein and any proposed amendments thereto. In addition, the Planning and Zoning Commission collects ...
In the early 20th century, Shire Hall in Dorchester was the local facility for dispensing justice and the meeting place of Dorset County Council. [1] After deciding the Shire Hall was inadequate for their needs, county leaders chose to procure a new county headquarters: the site selected had previously been open land known as "Colliton Park" which had once been occupied by the monastic ...
Dorset County Council was the county council of Dorset in England. It was created in 1889 and abolished in 2019. Throughout its existence, the council was based in Dorchester. Bournemouth and Poole were made independent from the county council in 1997 when their councils became unitary authorities.
Dorchester is a village in Clark and Marathon counties in the U.S. state of Wisconsin, along the 45th parallel. It is part of the Wausau, Wisconsin Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 876 at the 2010 census. [6] Of this, 871 were in Clark County, and only 5 were in Marathon County.
County Hall, Dorchester. Dorset is a unitary authority area, existing since 1 April 2019, in the ceremonial county of Dorset, England. It covers all of the ceremonial county except for Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole.
Shire Hall is an 18th-century courthouse in Dorchester, Dorset. The building was the centre of law, order and government, and served as the county hall for Dorset until 1955. It has been Grade I listed since 1950. [1] In 2018, the hall opened as the Shire Hall Historic Courthouse Museum. [2]
Dorchester Rural District [7] West Dorset: Dewlish: 284 [68] 8.61 Dorchester Rural District [7] West Dorset: Dorchester (town) 19,060 [69] 7.12 Dorchester Municipal Borough [70] West Dorset: Durweston: 398 [71] 7.48 Blandford Rural District [14] North Dorset: East Chelborough: Beaminster Rural District [23] West Dorset: East Holme: Wareham and ...
It was part of Weymouth Rural District from 1894 to 1933, [7] and Dorchester Rural District from 1933 to 1974. [8] From 1974 to 2019, Chickerell was part of West Dorset district and returned three councillors for the district council, [ 9 ] and one councillor for the Chickerell & Chesil Bank ward of Dorset County Council .