Latest Clark’s Point Subdivision change gets nod
From left, Wiscasset Planning Board Chairman Ray Soule and members Jackie Lowell, Deb Pooler and Peter McRae take part in the May 22 meeting. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper
From left, Wiscasset Planning Board Chairman Ray Soule and members Jackie Lowell, Deb Pooler and Peter McRae take part in the May 22 meeting. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper
Progress on the Clark’s Point Subdivision continues in Wiscasset with Monday’s approval of another update to the plan. The Planning Board unanimously supported changing it for the second time in months.
Member Karl Olson, a design consultant on the updated plan, abstained from voting as he did in November 2016, when the board approved four lots’ development.
This time, Clarks Point Development LLC asked to put seven single family homes where the 2006 plan had called for a four-unit condominium and a three-unit one.
The River Point Road site is very picturesque, member Al Cohen said in support of the amendment. “To me, it looks like an ideal use for the land that’s there.”
“I would agree,” fellow member Peter McRae said.
The board again waived a series of requirements it waived in 2006; and waived others involving utilities and roads already installed. The panel also approved a blasting permit for the project. According to the permit application, Timothy Purington of Drilling and Blasting Rock Specialists Inc. of Gardiner will be blasting ledge.
No one from the public spoke at Monday’s hearing before the votes. Selectman’s candidate Kim Andersson and two reporters comprised the audience. Following the voting, Chairman Ray Soule told Olson and Andrew Hedrich, senior engineer at the Camden-based surveying and engineering firm Gartley & Dorsky, they were all set. He thanked them for having everything in order. Hedrich thanked the board for its time.
Also Monday, Soule asked Town Planner Ben Averill for any update on a proposal involving Point East lots. The board decided May 9, due to a road rights issue, the town needed to seek Mason Station’s consent to combine parts of two tax-acquired lots into a new one to sell to Peregrine Turbine Technologies. The Wiscasset business has proposed renovating a warehouse to assemble and test a turbine for a turbine-powered generator. Averill told Soule, the town has contacted Mason Station LLC and has not heard back.
The board meets next at 7 p.m. June 12 at the municipal building.
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