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ANNUAL REPORT Planning

The Planning Department is responsible for assisting Planning Board applicants and helping the community identify and achieve long-term goals associated with growth, land management, and economic development. The department provides support to the Planning Board, Land Management Planning Committee, Economic Development Committee, and the newly formed Comprehensive Plan Update Committee, as well as providing planning assistance on infrastructure projects. In FY 2017, staff focused on an update of the towns Comprehensive Plan, planning efforts related to construction of a new public works facility for the Town, and revisions of the zoning ordinance brought through the LMPC. Comprehensive Plan Update Committee The board of selectmen voted to form the Comprehensive Plan update committee in November of 2017 and appointed the committee members in December 2017. The committee first met in January of 2018 and has been meeting monthly since. The committee has been working hard laying the ground work for an updated plan. The comprehensive plan is similar to a business plan for the town in that it takes stock of what we have and where we are as a town. Then it will set goals for what we want to do in the future. For more information and ongoing updates contact the Town Planner, Scott Hastings. Thanks to all who served: Peter Bragdon (chair), Stephen Chandler, Linda Chase, Sam Coggeshall, Ben Davison, Caitlyn Davison, Terry DeWan, Julie Fralich, Rebecca Klotzle, Don Libby (vice chair), Jean Libby, Steve Libby, Barbara Seaver, Debra Smith, Ben Tettlebaum. Planning Board The Planning Board reviewed and approved ten new site plan applications, and one seven lot subdivision: Site Plan Reviews: • Private Rd., Sabbathday Rd., Limited Residential Shoreland, Resource Protection, Groundwater Protection Overlay • Event Venue (site plan amendment), Intervale Rd., Rural Residential District • Brewery, Lewiston Rd., Residential Business-1, Groundwater Protection Overlay • Commercial building (site plan amendment), Oz Drive, Residential Commercial, Groundwater Protection Overlay • Façade Change, Cobbs Bridge Rd., Historic Resource Overlay, Village District • Residential Treatment Center, Intervale Rd., Rural Residential District • Single Family Home, Lewiston Rd., Village District, Groundwater Protection District • Commercial Expansion, Lewiston Rd., Residential Business-1, Groundwater Protection District • Deck addition, Gloucester Hill Rd., Historic Resource Overlay, Rural Residential District. • Accessory cabins, Lewiston Rd., Upper Village District, Groundwater Protection District • New Private Road/Driveway and setback waivers, Sabbathday Road, Limited • Residential-Shoreland District • D ormer Addition, Intervale Road, Village and Historic Resource Overlay District

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