MINOT – The Planning Board on Tuesday night approved procedures that require a project applicant to fill out a Request for Planning Board Review form.
It must be accompanied by appropriate permit applications that the code enforcement officer will check to determine whether the proposed development needs to go before planners. If the code enforcement officer determines that the board review is necessary, the applicant must submit 10 copies of the completed application form and supporting documents, as well as 10 copies of the site plan and all supporting plans, with application and mailing fees, to the town office at least two weeks prior to the meeting at which the applicant wants his development considered.
The town office will mail copies to the five board members, two alternate members, the Board of Selectmen, the code enforcement officer and the town’s road manager before the meeting.
The new procedure should, according to board Chairman John Geismar, expedite the approval process, ensuring that the information needed for good decision-making reaches appropriate parties in a timely fashion.
In other business, the board gave final approval, with conditions, to Gary MacFarland’s amended Brighton Hill Acres subdivision.
The portion of the subdivision affected by the amendment consists of seven lots on 41 acres off Brighton Hill Road.
The Department of Environmental Protection, whose review is expected to be completed within the week, is primarily interested in the subdivision’s storm water management plan because the subdivision is in the Taylor Pond watershed.
The board’s main conditions were for the developer to pay the town $4,350 to make improvements along Brighton Hill Road and that deeds detail future lot owners’ obligations to maintain a fire pond within the subdivision.
The board also gave final approval to Peter Theriault’s site plan for locating his cabinet-making business on three acres near the top of Jackson Hill Road.
And the board reviewed the walking trail plan as presented by the Minot Recreation Committee. According to the plan, a network of trails, nearly three miles long, will be built on 140 acres of town land between the Minot Consolidated School and the Minot Memorial Park ball fields.
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