Copies of the newly updated plan are available in the town office for review.
OTISFIELD – Comprehensive Plan update committee Chairman Jim Bishop met with selectmen Wednesday night to schedule the public hearing for the plan.
The plan is an update to one adopted in 1991. The update builds on that plan and includes changes.
After securing a planning grant from the state, the selectmen appointed nine members to the comprehensive planning committee during the summer of 2001.
Androscoggin Valley Council of Governments provided technical support in developing the plan.
Bishop outlined changes in the plan including adding a land use plan to it.
Another change to the plan is a statement added that the committee was unable to follow the state strategy of a growth and a rural area.
The wording in the formation of a Town Government Study Committee was also changed. It had called for elected and paid town personnel to be excluded from the committee and for the committee to be elected. This was changed to exclude elected officials but allows elected officials to act as advisers.
The plan now calls for this committee to be appointed.
A Capital Improvement Plan was also added. Copies of the newly updated plan are available in the town office for review.
The selectmen scheduled the hearing for 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 19, in Otisfield Community School. Residents will get their chance to vote on the plan during the annual town meeting slated for March. The hearing is in preparation for the vote.
In other business, selectmen appointed two committees. To the road committee they appointed Richard Bean Sr., Frank Blauvelt, Wayne Brasier, Dan Peaco and Jim Bishop. To the Town Government Study Committee they appointed Jeff Jacobs, Bill McCoy, Win Webster, Barbara Kane and Beverly Sears.
Because Selectman Tom Nurmi has conflicts with the regularly scheduled January board meetings, they changed their meeting nights to the first and third Thursday of January.
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