MINOT – The Planning Board ruled Tuesday that Belinda Dubois and Wendy Simard’s proposal to open a preschool and day-care center for up to 49 children would be permitted on land zoned rural residential.
The board concurred with Code Enforcement Officer Ken Pratt’s assessment that such a facility falls under the institutional use category which, in a rural residential zone, requires a site plan review of the proposed development.
The board reviewed the general criteria for development in a rural residential zone, and Dubois and Simard were given guidelines for the information they will need to complete the site plan review application.
In other business, the board agreed to assist town officials in the process of officially abandoning the Hodge Hill subdivision.
The subdivision is next to the Minot Consolidated School on the former Morrison property, which the town purchased a few years ago to provide the school with room for adequate athletic facilities. Prior to the purchase, the property owners had received approval for a loop road and 16 house lots.
Town Administrator Rhonda Irish told the board the town needed to “erase” the lot lines by filing a revision to the plans in the county registry of deeds in order to apply for recreational trail grants through the state Department of Conservation.
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