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Pre-application workshop held for 29-acre conservation subdivision on Bruce Hill Road

Cumberland Planning Board · January 21, 2026
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At a public workshop, the applicant presented a sketch plan for a 29-acre conservation subdivision at 147 Bruce Hill Road proposing conservation/open-space, 75-foot buffers, municipal water extension and on-site septic. Abutters raised access and deed-restriction concerns; board directed the applicant to submit a full preliminary packet for peer review.

The Cumberland Planning Board heard a pre-application presentation for a proposed conservation subdivision at 147 Bruce Hill Road, a roughly 29-acre parcel in the RR2 district.

Henry Hess, a landscape architect with Sebago Technics, presented the sketch plan and described a layout that keeps the rear of the parcel in conservation, provides a roughly 75-foot buffer around the lots, anticipates municipal water extension from Bruce Hill Road, and relies on on-site septic (no sewer currently available). Hess said…

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