CANTON – Voters at Canton’s town meeting Saturday get to decide if the town’s 2001 automobile graveyard/junkyard ordinance should be strengthened or left as is.
Article 35 seeks to define what can and cannot be done with junk cars, as well as vehicles being dismantled or stored in yards.
Among the revisions:
• No person may establish, operate or maintain an automobile graveyard, automobile recycling business or junkyard without a non-transferable permit from the municipal officers of the town that the operations are in. Permits are to be obtained from the Planning Board.
• Two or more junk vehicles in a yard require an automobile graveyard permit.
• A yard, field or other storage area with items listed under the junkyard definition requires a junkyard permit.
• All permits need to renewed annually by June 30.
The proposed municipal budget of $419,986 is $8,705 less than last year.
Administrative Assistant Kathleen Hutchins said Monday that the budget doesn’t include assessments from SAD 21 or Oxford County, which are done later in the year.
The town meeting begins 9 a.m. March 12 in the municipal building,
Polls for elections will be open from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Friday, March 11, in the municipal building.
Three people are running for two three-year Board of Selectmen seats: incumbent Wallace Haynes II, James L. Adley and Richard O. Ray.
Four people are running for three-year Planning Board seats: Tricia Blanchard, Kathleen A. Hutchins, Richard E. McCollister and Diane K. Ray.
There are also four three-year seats open on the Budget Committee. No one returned papers for these positions.
Road Commissioner Craig Gammon is seeking re-election.
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