NEW GLOUCESTER – If the Planning Board approves the two proposed subdivision applications before it Tuesday night, it would bring the number of lots created this year to 55.
Mainely New Homes Inc. is proposing to subdivide 13 acres on Route 100 north of the Upper Village. Six lots are proposed. The board will visit the property on Wednesday.
In the other proposal, applicants Donald Leavitt and John Palmiter plan to subdivide a wooded, steep 25.3 acre parcel on the Snow Hill Road into 10 lots within the Sabbathday Lake watershed. Engineer Steve Roberge of S.J.R. Engineering of Augusta said the parcel will cluster the subdivision within 9.4 acres of open space.
The board recently visited the property.
“It’s a nice lot, but steep,” said Planning Board Chairman Jean Libby. “The concern I had was to make sure that everything done will be done to protect the lake.”
The lot begins roughly 500 feet from the lakeshore.
“This is the hardest one (subdivision) that we’ve had so far because of the lake and our responsibility to protect the lake,” Libby said.
A letter from Allen Road neighbor Norm Chamberlain asks that the town become a party to any future maintenance agreement that includes a fire pond and restrictions on tree harvesting on each lot to 50 percent. The parcel is in an area of more traffic and safety challenges, said Chamberlain, who recommended that a homestead lot change access so that it comes from the subdivision road instead.
Steve Chandler of Chandler Brothers, a family-owned business that manages 2,700 acres throughout New Gloucester, said that a right-of-way easement from an edge of the parcel with neighboring woodlot owners is necessary for woodlot harvesting access.
A public hearing on the project will be held May 4.
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