HARTFORD – The Planning Board made no progress last week toward resolving a request by the Pine Shores Association to have the town handle its household waste. The board meets again Wednesday night.

The board had previously reviewed eight of 19 criteria needed to address the application for the amendment. It seeks to alter an original 1990 agreement for the subdivision on the south end of Canton Lake.

Instead, the meeting Thursday turned to other issues, some involving heated discussion. A letter from the association chairman was read. An association board member who came to the meeting was not allowed to speak for the association. A motion to consider only the criteria pertinent to the amendment failed.

When Patten Corp. applied to develop the housing subdivision about 1990, the town was using an illegal dump permit. In reviewing the town’s request for a legal permit, the Department of Environmental Protection stipulated that the subdivision would handle its own waste disposal.

Since then, however, Hartford has built a legal transfer station.

Planning Board Chairman Dan Maddox said the board must have a letter from DEP rescinding the earlier order.

When asked what the other conditions were, Maddox replied they were in the minutes of the previous workshop and would have to be researched.

Planning Board alternate John Convey presented a letter from Pine Shores Association Board Chairman Mike Swanick requesting that the Planning Board consider only the Municipal Solid Waste Disposal section of the Maine Planning and Land Use Laws.

Planning Board member Judy Hamilton made a similar motion, to have the board consider only the criteria applicable to the association’s amendment application. She cited an Androscoggin Valley Council of Governments opinion to that effect. She also said that the Maine Municipal Association suggested that only the criteria that applied to the situation be considered.

The vote was 2-2 with one abstention. The motion did not carry.

Maddox wrote a letter asking the association to get written notice from DEP rescinding the original order and to submit other needed documents. Convey asked that a list of those documents be presented at the July 28 workshop.

There was also a dispute about who could speak for the association. Maddox said that Swanick had told him no one could speak as a representative except Swanick himself. Association Board member Ron Melendy, who came to the workshop to speak on behalf of the association, said that Swanick’s comment had applied to only one specific situation.