GLENBURN – The Glenburn Town Council tabled a moratorium on subdivisions and introduced a second moratorium option the council will consider at its May 29 meeting.

The reason behind the postponement is because the town’s planning board meeting on May 13 did not complete its agenda, which included five preliminary applications that would be affected by the moratorium.

“Technically speaking if you pass the moratorium tonight the five preliminary applications would not be able to proceed,” said Town Attorney Tom Russell during the Thursday meeting.

All nine applications that were on the May 13 planning board agenda will be processed at the board’s next meeting May 27, said Tim Hodgkins, chairman of the planning board.

“This next meeting is just a continuation of the May 13 meeting,” he said. “Several of the proposals on there were rushed to us because of the moratorium. We will get through the rest of the agenda.”

The landowner of Countryside Estates, a two-phase subdivision, said that the moratorium would stop the third phase of the subdivision in its tracks.

“We’re at the sketch plan stage so that would leave us out,” said Aaron Knowles.

The moratorium would cease all subdivisions that had not received preliminary plan approval. The original moratorium calls for a May 13 cutoff date. The second option would exclude any subdivision that received preliminary application approval at the May 27 planning board meeting.

“The whole reason for this attempt at action is to revise the subdivision rules,” said Hodgkins.

Knowles agrees the ordinance needs to be revised but added he’s unsure how the new ordinance will impact the third phase of Countryside.

“I don’t know how it will affect us because we don’t know what the new ordinance will be,” he said. “I haven’t seen anything in writing. I don’t know what the facts are because they don’t have a proposed ordinance ready.”

If approved, the moratorium would be temporary.

“The moratorium we’re proposing is not a forever thing – it’s 180 days,” said Councilor Bob Campbell.

Russell suggested and the council agreed to postpone the item until the next meeting, which will also include another public hearing on the matter.

Also during the meeting, the council approved “an emergency ordinance to control and regulate the issuance of special amusement permits for music, dancing or entertainment in facilities licensed to sell liquor.” This action was taken in the wake of a site plan application for an adult entertainment facility to be called the Tasty Pudding Club.

“This emergency ordinance is specific and is to regulate nudity in the town of Glenburn,” said Councilor Mark Stevens. “My opinion is this type of entertainment is not for Glenburn.”

Currently, Glenburn does not have an establishment that serves liquor. Engineering Dynamics Inc. of Bangor, had requested site plan approval for an adult entertainment complex in a letter dated April 28.

The application was not placed on the planning board agenda because the applicant had not revealed where the facility would be located, who the owners were or proof that the company was serious about establishing itself in Glenburn, according to city officials.

“This takes the tasty out of the Tasty Pudding Club,” said Jim Tower, proprietor of the engineering firm.