JAY – Planning Board members will hold a workshop tonight to review a draft amendment to a town ordinance that would increase subdivision fees and add liquidation-harvesting rules.
The board will consider the proposed changes to the Jay Environmental Control and Improvement Ordinance. It’s scheduled to go before selectmen on Monday, after Planning Board members’ review and, if selectmen approve the amendment, it will go before voters in December, said Code Enforcement Officer Shiloh Ring on Monday.
The workshop begins at 6 p.m. tonight in the Community Building. It will be followed by a regular meeting, which will take up proposed amendments to International Paper’s air permit and proposed expansion of the paper company’s landfill.
During the workshop, the board will consider increasing subdivision fees from a $100 base fee, plus $40 per lot or dwelling, to $100 per lot or dwelling plus $150 for each lot to establish a subdivision review account, Ring said.
This section of the proposed ordinance came from the town of Turner’s ordinance and Planning Board members will decide whether they like it or not, Ring said.
The review fee could be used by the board for review costs, such as hiring a traffic engineer to do a traffic study, she said.
The money in the account would be refundable to the applicant if not used, she said.
Under the chapter for approval and standards for a subdivision, a proposed section would add review criteria for lands subject to liquidation harvesting. The criteria is in line with the state. It would require that the owner of a piece of land that had been radically cut would have to wait five years before subdividing.
During the regular meeting, the board will take up IP’s request to amend its air permit to change the target level for action for sulfur-fuel content in its compliance assurance plan from 1.75 percent to 1.76 percent.
It would increase the level when the mill would need to take action but would not increase the level of sulfur allowed in fuel in the permit, which is 1.8 percent, Ring said.
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