By
Lorraine Glowczak
The
Windham Town Council met on Tuesday evening, January 15 at 6 p.m. at the Town
Hall in the Council Chambers room.
The
evening began with a public comment from a Windham citizen whose home is
located on Maverick Lane. On January 1, a medical marijuana storefront opened
at the entrance of Maverick Lane, two doors down from the citizen’s home as
well directly in front of a bus stop and within two miles of local schools,
including daycares. Marijuana storefronts are required to be in a C-1 zone,
while this store front is in a C-3 zone. “How did this get passed?” the citizen
asked the Council. “This may have been an oversite and needs to be rectified.”
Tom
Bartell, Executive Director of WEDC wanted to bring the public’s attention to
the highway resurfacing project along Route 302. Resurfacing of Route 302 will
begin this spring starting .17 miles north of White’s Bridge Road in Windham,
extending northwesterly 11.28 miles ending in Naples.
After
the new pavement is placed, no permit to open this segment of the highway will
be granted for a period of 3 years. “Whatever
notification you can provide to business and property owners regarding this
information would be appreciated,” Bartell told the Council.
The
Town Council also heard from Bartell and Holly Tubbs, owner of Water Systems at
158 Roosevelt Trail, a C3 zone. Bartell explained that property owners have not
been able to sell or expand as a result of the missing term, construction
services, that was eliminated in 2016. Tubbs stated to the Council, “I
respectfully ask for you to allow Construction services in C3. Anything less is
devaluing our properties and I have no idea what it does to the value of the
residences the town is encourage people to build in a commercial zone.”
The
Town Council asked Bartell and Tubbs offer a narrow definition of the light
services/commercial industry/construction services that could be added to the
definition and present it to the Council for consideration at a later date to
be determined.
For
full details of the meeting and other agenda items discussed, go to the town
website at www.windhammaine.us.
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