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Dear Mayor Coleman:

You have requested a legal opinion of the attorney general relative to the town's zoning of a large and substantial part of the town of Jackson consisting of 256 parcels of land. This part to be zoned is the Jackson Historic District already established as a National Historic District within the National Register of Historic Places under the jurisdiction of the U.S. National Park Service. You further inform us that the town of Jackson does not currently operate under a comprehensive zoning plan, and you ask whether the town can establish a zoning and land use plan for this…