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Lewiston planning board backs clearer No Name Pond buffer language, sends recommendation to council
Summary
The Lewiston Planning Board voted 6–1 to recommend language clarifying where a 50‑foot vegetated buffer applies in the No Name Pond overlay, stressing the buffer applies at the outflow to natural streams while enabling maintenance access to manmade stormwater facilities.
The Lewiston Planning Board voted to send City Council a recommended amendment to the No Name Pond conservation overlay that clarifies where a 50‑foot buffer must be maintained and where maintenance access is required.
Staff told the board that the proposed wording would apply the 50‑foot minimum buffer to perennial and intermittent streams, natural drainage ways and the treated outflow from stormwater treatment infrastructure, while distinguishing those features from manmade conveyances (ditches, swales, retention ponds) that require maintenance access. Chair Shanna Cox said the change was intended to remove ambiguity that would have made existing subdivisions technically noncompliant and…
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