Up to four of the nine applicants may be carried over to later meetings.
FARMINGTON – The town’s planning board has a beefy agenda for Monday night.
Several of the applications on the list most likely won’t be decided on at the meeting and instead will go before the community at public hearings, Farmington’s Code Enforcement Office Steve Kaiser said.
Kaiser added he anticipates that up to four applications would be continued by the board Monday night until they can go before a public hearing.
Those four include:
• A remand from the appeals board to again take up an application from the University of Maine at Farmington to build a new “green” education center for the College of Education, Health and Rehabilitation at the corner of High and Lincoln streets.
• An application from U.S. Cellular to erect a 190-foot telecommunications tower on a parcel of land owned by Deborah Mallett and Raymond Titcomb at 376 Titcomb Hill Road. The new tower would improve reception, especially in the downtown area, and allow the carrier to respond to the rising call volume. • And, an application from the Farmington Hills Housing Associates to build two buildings, each with six units, off of Cascade Leisure Park Road.
Kaiser said the planning board will most likely want to hear public sentiment on those projects before approving them, and in most cases, will want to tour the sites where these plans are proposed.
An application from Portland developer Grant Wilson to renovate the three-story building at 187 Main St., which formerly housed Don’s AG, to house two restaurants and office space on the first floor and to add two, two-story apartments in addition to the two already there, has already been given the thumbs-up from the state Fire Marshal’s Office and will go before the board.
All in all, there are nine applications before the board. An appeals board remand on an application from Mark and Heidi Goodwin to renovate an attached barn at 247 High St. into two, two-bedroom apartments has been postponed for the second month in a row.
According to Kaiser, the Goodwin’s have retained an attorney on the matter, and he could not be present at the meeting.
Several of the issues before the board on Monday night were slated to be reviewed at earlier meetings, however, a lack of a quorum because of too many perceived conflicts of interest prevented them from being taken up.
Kaiser said as of now, all board members and both alternates are scheduled to be at the meeting.
Although some board members may step aside from certain issues, Kaiser said “it looks like we are going to be good” in terms of having a quorum to deal with all issues.
The Farmington Planning Board will meet at 7 p.m. Monday, Feb. 9, at the Town Office. To view a complete agenda, log on to www.farmington-maine.org and click on “agendas.”
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