NEW GLOUCESTER — Selectmen on Monday approved a new fee schedule for residential/commercial/business permits, including new and replacement mobile homes, sheds, garages and barns.

Code Enforcement Officer Debra Parks-Larrivee said the new schedule uses a square foot calculation and creates a more level playing field for all builders.

For example, a permit for a 24-by 36-square-foot raised ranch finished would cost $518. That’s based on 25 cents per square foot for the two floors and 10 cents per square foot for the unfinished foundation.

The old schedule was based on a value given by the builder and calculated at $4 per $1,000.

A permit for replacement of a 14- by 70-foot mobile home is now 10 cents per square foot instead of a flat $50.

Subdivisions and appeals/variances carry a $50 fee, and will not include the cost of posting public hearings.

There are no changes in permit fees for plumbing, gravel pit renewals, home occupations, signs, poles, swimming pools and demolitions. Site plan, review and subdivision rates remain the same.

In other business, the board fine-tuned the warrant for the annual town meeting, which is scheduled for 7 p.m. May 7 at Memorial School on Route 231.

Selectmen agreed that petition-initiated articles must be filed with the board by 4 p.m. March 28 if they are to be considered in the warrant.

Board Chairman Steve Libby read a letter commending the town’s Public Safety Committee for the recent program on domestic violence that brought four experts to New Gloucester.

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