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Caribou planning board reviews draft future land-use map, emphasizes riverfront mixed use and resiliency
Summary
Board reviewed draft designated growth areas for the comprehensive plan: mixed-use along downtown and South Main, limiting industrial riverfront uses, aligning future growth areas to parcel lines, and incorporating a GOPIF resiliency study into the plan.
Planning staff led a detailed discussion Thursday of the future land-use section of Caribou’s comprehensive plan and a proposed “designated growth areas” map that will guide a forthcoming zoning update.
City staff sought direction on where the map should identify future growth: downtown mixed-use, an extended mixed-use corridor down South Main Street, limited industrial locations (not the riverfront), and redevelopment of former industrial parcels such as the Birds Eye site under a new working name “Caribou Crossing.”
Staff (Karen, city planning) said the 2014 plan used a simple blue-line proposed growth area and that…
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