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Planning board initiates review to ease home food businesses, align with state licensing
Summary
The board voted to initiate code amendments to Article 12 to relax automatic Tier‑2 requirements for small food preparation businesses and to align city tiers with state food licensing distinctions; staff will draft language and research related issues for the next meeting.
The Lewiston Planning Board voted to initiate code amendments to Article 12, Section 22, aiming to ease barriers for small home‑based food businesses. Staff told the board that current code automatically places any business that involves food handling or processing into Tier 2, which requires a Board of Appeals application in addition to state licensing.…
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