CANTON – Contractor Keith Wilson of Canton was ordered Thursday night to toss out the kitchen sink from his efficiency apartment to comply with town law.
Wilson denied the upstairs living area in his rented home was anything other than an office where he sometimes spent the night.
Code Enforcement Officer Stan Haynes said he inspected the addition, and it could certainly be used as an efficiency apartment. It has a bathroom and kitchen sink, he said, for which Wilson had no plumbing permit.
“You are a building contractor, and it never occurred to you to get a permit?” asked Selectman Lisa Cummings.
Wilson said he did no work in Canton and was not familiar with the permit requirements.
“I didn’t know I was in violation,” he said.
Administrative Assistant Kathy Hutchins said the lot was only a quarter acre and not large enough for two residences, which the addition created.
Haynes said there are two families living there if Wilson sometimes spent the night. Making the upstairs accessible to the family renting below would be another solution.
The board voted to have Wilson remove the kitchen sink and get a plumbing permit to remedy the violation.
There was considerable discussion about a trailer on Chris Dailey’s property where Richard McCallister was living.
Haynes said he thought McCallister had no disposal for waste and gray water.
Dailey said McCallister is now in a trailer with a Porta Potti.
The sewage disposal from a Porta Potti in a trailer resulted in more discussion.
Selectman Rick Ray said he would check out the trailer and was inundated with comments about trailers all over town that might need to be checked.
The board signed a year contract with Animal Control Officer Mark Blanchette.
There will be a public hearing at 6 p.m. tonight to review a proposal on relocating the village center out of the flood plain. A special town meeting will be held immediately after the hearing to accept a $300,000 Community Development Block Grant for housing flood victims.
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