ORONO – Town councilors voted Monday at a special meeting to reassign a portion of its designated Pine Tree Zone area.

Resident Leo Kenney recently moved to the area and wanted to locate his sales and marketing consulting business, SBK Consulting LLC, in town but couldn’t find a feasible site already located in the municipality’s designated Pine Tree Zone areas.

Kenney has arranged to lease a building on Main Street from Ted Curtis and since his business already is Pine Tree Zone approved, requested that the town add Curtis’ building to the approved zone list.

“I’ve looked at other locations and haven’t been able to find anything that’s suitable,” Kenney said.

In addition, the council decided to designate all of Curtis’ downtown area buildings, the former NOAA building and Second Hand Rose, which will close at the end of the month, as Pine Tree approved sites.

“It may assist the property owner in finding a new tenant,” Orono Tax Assessor Rick Sands said at the meeting.

In order to change the list of properties to encompass an additional 0.36 acres and keep the designated Pine Tree Zones at 100 acres total, 0.36 acres was taken off the portion of land owned by Lloyd Wolfe on Stillwater Avenue. Sands said that Wolfe had agreed to the transaction.