Caribou Planning Board schedules public hearings on nuisance and blight ordinances

The Caribou Planning Board voted March 13 to schedule public hearings on two draft ordinances — a revised nuisance ordinance and a blight ordinance — moving both measures to the next stage of review.

The measures matter because they would change how the city defines and enforces nuisances and aesthetic blight, introduce new definitions and penalties, and rely on a mix of local ordinance authority and state statute review before the council considers final adoption.

Board members discussed language changes to the nuisance ordinance that primarily add definitions intended to clarify what the ordinance covers. A board member said the edits were “just the end of, of putting those definitions in” so the ordinance…