LIVERMORE — The Board of Selectpersons will hold a public hearing Tuesday on three new proposed ordinances.

The Planning Board will hold a second public hearing on proposed amendments to the town’s Site Plan Ordinance, including a new section governing adult entertainment at premises not licensed to sell alcohol.

Copies of the proposed ordinances are available at the Town Office for review.

The first hearing will begin at 7 p.m. May 22 at the Town Office and will be followed by the second hearing.

Voters will consider the ordinances and amended ordinance at 7 p.m. Wednesday, June 13, at the Livermore Elementary School.

The first of three ordinances that selectmen will conduct a hearing on is the Property Assessed Clean Energy Ordinance.  It allows eligible homeowners and businesses to borrow as much as $15,000 in a low-interest loan program awarded to Efficiency Maine Trust under the federal Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant Program. A town ordinance has to be in place for a homeowner or business owner in the town to participate in the program.

The Maine Legislature approved the 2009 PACE law to increase the affordability of clean energy for homeowners and businesses.

There is no cost to the town for the program.

A second ordinance proposed is the Ordinance Exempting Active Duty Military Personnel from Vehicle Excise Tax.

A third one proposed is a citizen imitative for the “Town of Livermore Local Food and Community Self Governance Ordinance” of 2012.

A petition with more than 100 signatures was submitted to put the proposed ordinance on the annual town meeting warrant, town administrative assistant Kurt Schaub said.

The proposal would allow people in the town to have the right to produce, process, sell, purchase and consume local foods thus promoting self-reliance, the preservation of family farms and local food, according to the ordinance.

The purpose of the ordinance is to provide citizens with unimpeded access to local food. It would enhance the local economy by promoting the production and purchase of local agricultural products. It would protect access to farmers’ markets, roadside stands, farm-based sales and direct producer to patron sales. It also would serve to support the economic viability of local food producers and processors, preserve community social events where local foods are served or sold, and preserve local knowledge and traditional food ways.

The Planning Board’s proposed amendments to the town’s Site Plan Ordinance that deals with commercial entities include new approval criteria for exterior lighting, buffering of adjacent uses where there is a transition from one use to another and for the screening of mechanical equipment and service and storage areas.

There is also new approval criteria proposed for storage of materials, business signs and changeable message signs. New approval criteria proposed for noise is to match the criteria from the existing Special Amusement Ordinance.

The proposed new section for adult entertainment for businesses that don’t sell alcohol defines what is considered adult entertainment and where the operation of an adult entertainment establishment could be located.

Those restrictions proposed that no adult entertainment establishment may be within 500 feet of the closest part of the structure of a business which caters to the general public or within 1,000 feet of the closest part of the structure of any of the following: a church, synagogue or other house of religious worship; a public or private elementary or secondary school; a child care facility, a public park or public recreational facility; or any residence on adjacent property, excepting the owner or proprietor of the licensed establishment.

Criteria for adult entertainment for a business that does sell alcohol is covered under the town’s Special Amusement Ordinance.

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