LIVERMORE FALLS — The Planning Board will meet Wednesday to discuss new applications for counseling services and to get updates on the progress of proposed ordinances on fireworks and property maintenance.
The meeting will be held at 6:30 p.m. Nov. 28 at the Town Office.
Under new business, the board will review applications for Sharon Neil, a licensed clinical social worker and licensed alcohol and drug counselor, for outpatient counseling. And a second application has been filed by Chris Beaudoin, a licensed clinical social worker, to provide mental health counseling.
The proposals are to open offices in the Bank Building, Code Enforcement Officer James Butler Jr. said.
Butler also intends to inform the board that two administrative appeals have been filed on the board’s approval of Journeys End, a proposed pet crematory on Brookside Avenue.
It is the second time an appeal has been filed against the proposed business. In May, the Planning Board approved the application but it was appealed by abutters due to a procedural error. The Board of Appeals sent it back to the Planning Board.
The Board of Appeals will be scheduled to hear the appeal.
The Planning Board approved the site review application again in October. Abutters have consistently voiced opposition to the crematory being set up in their residential area.
The town has no zoning and there is nothing to prevent the business from opening, Planning Board member Robin Beck said last month.
Abutters cited potential odors, emissions and having the business about 100 feet, in some cases, from other properties.
The incinerator Michelle Pomeroy has purchased has an afterburner and is not expected to produce odor or smoke, she told the Planning Board previously.
The incinerator has a maximum capacity of 200 pounds.
Attorney David Sanders hired by some of the abutters told the board in October the town doesn’t have zoning but the ordinance does have performance standards.
The town’s ordinance also requires the board to consider whether the business would have an adverse effect on the neighborhood and its character, he said.
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