JAY – Planning Board members accepted as complete, pending submission of a few items, an application for an amendment to the Jay Community Development Park subdivision.
The board voted Tuesday not to hold a public hearing on the application that would create a 12th lot in the subdivision at Jay Plaza where Androscoggin Bank wants to build a full-service bank.
However, the board plans to visit the site at 9 a.m. Monday, Oct. 17.
The park is under the jurisdiction of the Jay Development Corp., and was leased in a 99-year agreement to Bob and Sandra Bahre, trustees of Jay Realty Trust, in the 1980s.
The development corporation’s directors, along with the selectmen, adopted a resolution in June authorizing the option for a 78-year ground lease for the new lot in the park.
The town bought the majority of the 65-acre parcel in the park on both sides of the railroad bed in the mid-1970s through the Farmers Home Administration, and the parking lot was created with a grant from the federal Economic Development Administration. Bob Bahre also bought a 3-acre parcel and donated it to the town for the project.
Tom DuBois, an engineer with Main-Land Development, which is working on creating the lot for Bahre, told Planning Board members the lot would be 41,864 square feet and would be south of McDonald’s restaurant.
DuBois said the Department of Transportation has been contacted in regard to estimating traffic for the lot.
The lot would be accessible through the existing parking lot.
The board accepted the application pending submission of documents for soil and erosion control, stormwater, traffic and water.
The board will go through the standards in the town’s subdivision ordinance at its Tuesday, Nov. 1, meeting. If everything is accepted, the board could take action on the application then.
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