NORWAY – The Planning Board raised no objections Thursday to a proposal calling for the tenants of a proposed technology park to drill wells rather than use town water.

Planning Board Chairman Dennis Gray told Marcy Boughter, development manager for Western Maine Development, to send copies of reports from her engineering firm to the board.

“Pull all your information together and we will send it down to Ferg (Lea of Androscoggin Valley Council of Governments), and we will want to send one to our engineer,” Gray said.

Boughter said tenants using wells would save the development firm about $1.7 million. However, about $500,000 would be needed to install a tank and pipes running from a retention pond to the tank. The water from this tank would be available to firefighters in emergencies.

In other business, the board approved building permits for Levi Libby to erect two, 8-foot by 10-foot sheds on his property.

Libby, owner of LCL Electrical Contractors, said he wants to use his 50-by-30-foot garage as a base for his home business.

He also laid out a 5-year plan for development that at this point includes constructing a road and erecting a fence around the front of the property.

Libby also said he may have as many as five employees in five years.

Gray told him that as many people that lived in his house could work at a home business, but as soon as employees outside of the home grew to two, he would no longer be bound by home business rules.

“We would have to look at this in another way,” Gray said.

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