LIVERMORE FALLS – Residents approved a $2.16 million spending package Wednesday to take care of municipal operations in 2005-06. That figure represents an increase of $117,460 over the existing budget.
Voters approved all but one article during the annual town meeting, which lasted a little over three hours. They enacted a building notification ordinance, amended a building lot standards ordinance and re-enacted an adult-only business ordinance.
Townspeople voted to discontinue maintenance on Pasture Lane, off Route 133.
Voters also approved an article that allowed the town to spend more than the state levy limit in a 46-14 ballot vote, Livermore Falls Deputy Clerk Faith Nichols said Thursday. The state had required the vote if the townspeople decided to spend more than $46,653 over the current budget, she said.
The only rejected article asked voters to place ordinance fees in the code office/planning account, rather than putting the fees in the town’s general fund, Nichols said.
Townspeople voted to raise $28,000 to match a $112,000 state transportation grant for a project to build bicycle and walking paths. Last year, voters had raised funds to match a first-phase grant to build the $220,000 multi-surfaced path.
The new building notification ordinance will apply to new residential and commercial structures constructed or placed on a piece of property; the creation of one or more dwelling units within an existing structure; the reconstruction of an existing structure that changes the footprint by 200 square feet or more; outbuildings 200 square feet or more; and the relocation of an existing residential or commercial structure, garages or barns to a different parcel.
The amendment to the building lots standards ordinance, which sets guidelines on lots that may be built upon, now applies to all lots in town. Before, it had grandfathered lots before the ordinance enactment date of June 11, 1997.
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