NORWAY — The Planning Board will hold a public hearing at 7 p.m. Thursday, May 23, on revisions to the Shoreland Zoning Ordinance and Shoreland Zoning maps.

The board has recommended adopting the revisions to the ordinance and adopting the Shoreland Zoning map labeled “Option 2,” which preserves the resource protection zoning around part of North Pond and several other water bodies, including some identified significant wetlands.

The board has been working with Ferg Lea of the Androscoggin Valley Council of Governments in Auburn for the past several months on the revisions.

Board Chairman Dennis Gray said Wednesday that the revisions being recommended to voters at the annual town meeting in June were largely made to comply with changes at the state level.

“There have been a number of changes to pull the ordinance into compliance with the Legislature’s plan,” Gray said.

Some of the revisions, including those to protect inland wading birds, are to ensure that an area on the north side of North Pond continues to be a protected resource area. There are currently no structures built in that area, he said. Other revisions address changes in definitions.

Gray said in a statement that the revisions also clarify the guidelines for retaining walls in the shoreland zone, remands oversight of forestry practices in the shoreland zone to the Department of Conservation and clarifies the role of the Appeals Board in hearing appeals of decisions made by the code enforcement officer or the Planning Board.

The meeting will be held at the Norway Town Office. Maps and copies of the revised Shoreland Zoning ordinance are available for public review in the selectmen’s meeting room at the town office.

The annual town meeting gets under way at 7 p.m. June 17 in the Forum at the Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School in Paris.

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