FARMINGTON – State land use regulators will take up several items when they meet Wednesday in Farmington.

The meeting starts at 9:30 a.m. at the North Dining Hall at the University of Maine at Farmington.

Among the items are land-use decisions and settlement ratifications.

Land Use Regulation Commission members will consider a proposed settlement with John T. Hawes Jr. for violations of associated with placing a mobile home on his lot in Washington Township, without a permit and in violation of the commission’s setback standards. Violations also arose from clearing vegetation along Route 156 in excess standards, according to the proposed agreement.

After being notified of the violations and the commission’s permit requirement by staff, Hawes allegedly continued to construct decks and other accessory structures without permit approval, according to David Rodrigues, a compliance investigator.

Hawes subsequently obtained after-the-fact permit approval for his mobile home in a complaint location, for the decks and other accessory structures.

The proposed settlement agreement requires Hawes to pay a civil penalty of $700 in two installments and to re-establish a vegetative buffer in the cleared area by July 15.

In another case, John Hoffman seeks approval for a subdivision permit in Adamstown Township in Oxford County. He wants to divide two parcels totaling 56.4 acres into six building lots, an 11.6-acre open-space lot of record with 382.2 feet of shoreline frontage on Cupsuptic Lake, and an 18.89-acre lot without shore frontage to be retained by the applicant.

According to LURC staff, the creation of new subdivision lots in this area meets the state’s land use district and standards provisions in that it represents the expansion and infilling of an area already developed with single-family dwellings with similar single-family development, rather than the creation of new development areas along remote areas of the shoreline.

Staff also claim the development would not have an undue adverse impact on the outstanding wildlife and scene resources and significant shoreline and cultural resources of Cupsuptic Lake because it is orderly growth and development.

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