Land Use Planning Committee Pages

What's LUPC up to?

This section is a "working area" for the Town's project to revise our land use ordinances:
The 2012 Project: Managed Growth at 250

• This page shows a draft outline of the intended result of the project, as snapshot of the work in progress. 
• Subsequent pages show working (draft) documents for the sections that we have worked on so far.
• None of these sections have been finalized, and none will be in effect until adopted at a Town Meeting.
• LUPC Meeting minutes are in the Land Use Planning Committee Documents section.

 Land Use Ordinance DRAFT OUTLINE, for INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY

Sections for which a draft document is available are highlighted in orange.

Article 1: General

Section 1: Title
Section 2: Authority
Section 3: Purpose
Section 4: Applicability
Section 5: Conflicts with Other Ordinances
Section 6: Validity and Severability
Section 7: Effective Date
Section 8: Amendments

Article 2: Definitions

Article 3: Nonconformance

Section 1: Purpose
Section 2: Nonconforming Uses
Section 3: Nonconforming Structures
Section 4: Nonconforming Lots

Article 4: Establishment of Districts

Section 1: Districts Created
Section 2: District Boundaries
Section 3: District Map [See the draft Map Explanation and the Draft Map, updated 09-2008]

Article 5: District Regulations

District Purpose
Allowed/Permitted Uses*
Space & Bulk Standards**
District Performance Standards

Article 6: Performance Standards

Article 7: Floodplain Management

Section 1: Purpose
Section 2: Administrative Procedures
Section 3: Application Procedure & Submission Requirements
Section 4: Approval Criteria & Performance Standards

Article 8: Shoreland Zoning

Section 1: Purpose [Read the 03-06-08 Draft]
Section 2: Administrative Procedures
Section 3: Application Procedure & Submission Requirements
Section 4: Approval Criteria [Read the 05-02-08 Draft]
     & Performance Standards [Read the 07-17-08 Draft]

Non-Conformance [Read the 07-17-08 Draft]
Definitions [Read the 07-17-08 Draft]

Article 9: Subdivision Review 

Section 1: Purpose
Section 2: Administrative Procedures
Section 3: Application Procedure & Submission Requirements
Section 4: Approval Criteria & Performance Standards

Article 10: Site Plan Review [Adopted 06-11-08. Read the Ordinance.]

Section 1: Purpose
Section 2: Administrative Procedures
Section 3: Application Procedure & Submission Requirements
Section 4: Approval Criteria & Performance Standards

Article 11: Administration, Enforcement, Penalties & Appeals

Section 1: Code Enforcement Officer
Section 2: Planning Board
Section 3: Board of Appeals

Rough details from some of the sections above:

Allowed/Permitted Use Table (for all Districts, instead of separately)

Agricultural & Resource Uses
Agriculture
Agriculture products processing
Animal breeding or care
Boarding and riding stables
Extractive industry
Earthmoving (less then 10 cubic yards)
Earthmoving (10-100 cubic yards)
Earthmoving (over 100 cubic yards)
Greenhouses
Outdoor recreation (parks, playgrounds, golf course, etc)
Roadside produce stand
Timber Harvesting
Wetland Impacts (less then 100 square feet)
Wetland Impacts (100-4,300 square feet)
Wetland Impacts (over 4,300 square feet)
Accessory structures, uses or services (for items above)

Residential Uses
Accessory apartment
Back lots
Condominiums
Single-family dwelling
Single-family mobile home
Duplex (two-family)
Individual campsites
Multi-family dwelling (3 or more)
Mobile home park
Home daycare
Home occupation
Planned unit developments
Accessory structures, uses or services (for items above)

Industrial Uses
Automobile graveyard/junkyard
Airport
Bulk oil & fuel storage (over 500 gallons, except for on-site usage)
Landfill
Light manufacturing assembly plant
Lumber yard
Manufacturing
Newspaper facility
Pulp mill
Saw mill
Sewage treatment facility
Solid waste transfer station
Transportation facility & terminal
Warehouse
Accessory structures, uses or services (for items above)

Institutional Uses
Cemetery
Church
Civic, convention center
Community Center
Daycare center
Governmental facilities & grounds
Hospital
Medical clinic
Museum
Public or private school
Public facility utility
Accessory structures, uses or services (for items above)

Commercial Uses
Adult businesses
Alternative health services (physical therapy, massage, chiropractic, etc.)
Amusement facility
Art gallery/craft shop/gift shop
Auction barn
Automobile sales
Automobile repair garage
Bar
Bed & Breakfast
Boarding & Lodging facility
Boat building/repair
Campground
Commercial complex
Communication facility
Communication tower
Construction Business
Convenience store
Financial institution
Fisheries processing
Funeral home
Gas Station
Grocery store
Health spa, fitness club, gym
Hotel, motel
Kennel-boarding facility
Laundry, dry cleaning establishment
Nursing home, care facility
Professional offices, office building
Publishing, printing
Redemption center
Restaurant
Repair service (other than auto & boat)
Retail business
Self storage facility
Service business
Veterinary clinic
Wholesale business
Accessory structures, uses or services (for items above)

Space & Bulk Standards Table (for all Districts, instead of separately)

Lot size
Lot frontage
Lot setbacks
Lot coverage
Subdivisions: type, density, lot standards, open space requirement
Waterbody setback
Wetland setback
Building and/or Structure Height Maximum

Performance Standards List:

Access management
Residential driveways (design & construction standards)
Non-residential access driveways (design & construction standards)
Accessory apartment
Adult businesses
Agriculture
Agriculture products processing
Airport
Alternative health services (physical therapy, massage, chiropractic, etc.)
Amusement facility
Animal breeding or care
Art gallery/craft shop/gift shop
Auction barn
Automobile graveyard/junkyard
Automobile repair garage
Automobile sales
Back lots
Bar
Bed & Breakfast
Boarding & Lodging facility
Boarding and riding stables
Boat building/repair
Bulk oil & fuel storage (over 500 gallons, except for on-site usage)
Campground
Campsites
Cemetery
Church
Civic, convention center
Commercial complex
Communication facility
Communication tower
Community Center
Condominiums
Construction business
Convenience store
Daycare center
Driveway construction
Duplexes (two-family)
Earthmoving
Erosion & Sedimentation Control
Extractive industry
Financial institution
Fisheries processing
Funeral home
Gas Station
Governmental facilities & grounds
Greenhouses
Grocery store
Groundwater Protection
Health spa, fitness club, gym
Home daycare
Home occupation
Hospital
Hotel, motel
Kennel-boarding facility
Laundry, dry cleaning establishment
Landfill
Lighting
Light manufacturing assembly plant
Lot divisions
Lumber yard
Manufacturing
Marinas
Medical clinic
Mineral exploration & extraction
Mobile home & Mobile home parks
Multi-family dwelling (3 or more)
Museum
Newspaper facility
Nursing home, care facility
Odor
Off-street parking & loading
Oil & chemical storage
Outdoor recreation (parks, playgrounds, golf course, etc)
Planned unit developments
Professional offices, office building
Public facility utility
Public or private school
Publishing, printing
Pulp mill
Redemption center
Restaurant
Repair service (other than auto & boat)
Retail business
Roadside produce stand
Road design & construction
Sanitary
Saw mill
Self storage facility
Service business
Signs
Single-family dwelling
Solid waste transfer station
Subdivision (for different types: open space, large lot, traditional)
Sludge spreading
Stormwater management
Timber Harvesting
Transportation facility & terminal
Utilities
Veterinary clinic
Warehouse
Water quality protection
Wholesale business
Wood boilers

THIS IS A DRAFT DOCUMENT of the LAND USE PLANNING COMMITTEE or one of its subcommittees, FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. THIS IS NOT AN ADOPTED ORDINANCE SECTION.