WILTON – The town’s Planning Board will consider three new applications when they meet Thursday. The meeting begins at 7 p.m. at the town office.

The first application on the agenda is for a day care center. Valerie Bolduc has submitted an application for a day care center at 23 Highland Ave.

Planners will also consider whether to allow timber harvesting in a watershed overlay and resource protection zone. Scott Farmer wants to do the timber harvesting on Farmer Road.

William Rounds of 15 Lakeside Ave. wants to re-roof a seasonal camp. He would like to put metal roofing on the camp with an increased pitch. Rounds would also like to replace the existing outer structure of the camp with log construction in order to properly support the new roof. He also plans to repair current foundation failures.

In other business, planners will address possible ordinance changes and continue their discussions of issues they plan to work on for the current fiscal year. These include the possibility of increasing the number of hours Code Enforcement Officer Brenda Medcoff works in order to address a variety of violations in town, and researching what impact the town’s zoning ordinance will have on the newly enacted subdivision ordinance and whether some wording in the subdivision ordinance can be changed so planners do not have to use both ordinances when dealing with subdivisions.

At their last meeting planners decided to send a letter to the town’s selectmen formally asking that they consider an increase in hours for Medcoff. She currently works 20 hours per week. Planners would like to see her work 28 hours a week. Medcoff said she would devote those added hours to addressing ordinance violations in the town. Resident Conrad Heeschen agreed to research what information should be taken out of the town’s zoning ordinance and present it to planners Thursday.

Some other issues they plan to discuss this year are downtown village setback requirements from a stream, changes to the land use table, Routes 2 and 4 access management, how they will deal with signs advertising brand-name products, shoreland expansions and cluster development.


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