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Planning board workshops planned-unit-development ordinance; board signals preference for flexible incentives and a five-unit threshold
Summary
The Lewiston Planning Board held a workshop and directed staff to draft a flexible PUD ordinance with incentives for owner-occupied and affordable units, a five-unit eligibility threshold and provisions for mixed uses and shared amenities.
The Lewiston Planning Board held a workshop on a proposed Planned Unit Development (PUD) ordinance and provided staff direction on structure, incentives and thresholds for future draft language.
Planning staff presented examples and practices from Auburn, Gorham and York and sketched a draft PUD framework covering purpose, eligibility, permitted uses, standards, open-space expectations, density bonuses and process. "They have to design the open space before they design the rest of the subdivision," Land Use Planner Craig Thibault said when describing York’s conceptual-review approach; Gorham’s process…
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