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Planning Board approves lot-line adjustment for Map 25, Lots 31 and 33
Summary
The Planning Board accepted a completeness filing, granted procedural waivers and approved a lot-line adjustment that transfers roughly 16,000 square feet from a larger parcel to increase a nonconforming lot.
The Planning Board on July 15 accepted an application as complete and approved a lot-line adjustment for case P25-19 that reconfigures Map 25, Lot 31 and Lot 33.
The action clears a transfer of approximately 16,000 square feet from the larger parcel (Lot 33) to increase a smaller, nonconforming lot (Lot 31). "We are transferring 16,000 square feet plus or minus from the crow lot," said Steve Holt, agent for Norway Plains Associates, describing the change. The adjustment increases the smaller lot from about 12,000 square feet to about 29,000 square feet, the applicant said.
The adjustment was paired with a set of procedural waivers to shorten submission requirements for wetlands and related plan details the board found unnecessary for this simple boundary change. The chair called and the board voted to accept the application as complete, approve the listed waivers and then approve the lot-line adjustment. The board recorded the outcome as "motion carries; all in favor: Aye; all opposed: Motion carries." The transcript does not record an individual roll-call tally.
Board members asked whether the transfer reduced frontage for the larger lot; Holt and other board members clarified that the parent lot retained the road frontage. Holt said the transfer increases road frontage for the receiving lot and will bring a septic system into greater compliance by shifting it roughly 15 feet away from the lot line.
The board treated the item as an administrative boundary adjustment: no new building permits or further development approvals were granted by the board at the meeting. Holt said the current intent is only to complete the boundary adjustment, not to pursue additional development at this time.
The board granted the applicant's requested waivers by motion; the transcript names the waived checklist items as "article 7, f.7, g, .h, and .i" as recorded during the meeting.
Because final vote details were not recorded by name in the public transcript, the board's approval is reported here as the board announced it in the meeting: the motion to accept and the motion to approve both carried following the recorded voice vote.
