NEW GLOUCESTER – The Planning Board this week reviewed four subdivision applications, a total of 37 residential house lots.
No final action was taken, though reviews are at varying stages of completion.
Conditions were resolved for Tobey Pines, a 12-lot subdivision.
Brothers Roland and Robert Hale plan to divide roughly 82 acres from more than several hundred acres in the farm and forest zone within the groundwater protection overlay district.
The board approved the final application unanimously, subject to the completion of requirements.
Christopher Branch, of Technical Services Inc., will complete the plan’s conditions to include: A note indicating the groundwater protection overlay zone; standards required in the zone must be clarified; a resolution of a boundary issue with an abutter needs resolution; a construction fund escrow must be approved by Town Manager/Road Commissioner Rosemary Kulow. Also, the board requires receipt of a fire pond easement; a trench agreement for utilities and culvert improvements. A 2-to-1 slope is required with guard rails in a steep section of the private roadway.
Three town planners have reviewed the application that began last winter.
A tree-growth penalty has been paid in full. Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife reported there are no documented occurrences of rare, threatened or endangered species on the property. Two significant waterfowl/wading bird habitats are at the project site.
In another application, Dennis Waterman’s eight-lot subdivision of 38 acres on Sawyer Road inched ahead. The applicant has been before the board since last July.
Resolution of a requirement for a fire pond is in the works. Approval by the town’s fire chief is required. A performance guarantee is pending.
Henry Nichols of the Royal River Land Trust said a conservation grant to his group has been completed to protect the river in a historic and resource protection district that also meets requirements from Maine Historic Preservation Commission.
Pre-application/preliminary reviews began for Stewart and Margaret Park’s 11-lot subdivision consisting of 27.6 acres off Route 100.
And, Randy Atkins’ request to develop eight lots, Berryfield Estates, on Tufts Road, is in the preliminary stage of talks, also.
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