Bangor board approves four building projects

BANGOR – The city’s planning board made quick work Tuesday night of applications for four construction projects.

All of the projects that went before the board required both site development plan approval from the city and state permission to modify the site location of development act permits, a process delegated to the city.

Approved in a series of unanimous votes were:

. A request from Verizon Wireless to place cellular transmission antennas on the Bangor Water District’s water tower on Cleveland Street and to build a 20-foot-by-12-foot equipment building.

Verizon is the second cellular phone service provider to get antenna space on the water tower, located near the Maine Business Enterprise Park, in the last two years.

This proposal, which also required conditional use approval, was the only one taken up Tuesday that required a public hearing. Though the hearing took place, no members of the public attended.

. Abundant Life Church’s request to install a 68-foot radio tower on its property on outer Broadway. The tower, which would house a transmitter, will be used to rebroadcast content from an Augusta Christian radio station, according to Russ Hewitt, church vice president.

Hewitt said the tower will be erected about 200 feet back from Broadway, and the church’s engineering consultant said it won’t affect either radio transmissions from nearby Bangor Baptist Church or a subdivision planned for the immediate area.

. Husson College’s request to build a storm water detention pond on its campus at 1 College Circle. The school’s original state environmental permit included plans for four detention ponds, but not all were constructed and some would have occupied land now earmarked for development, according to college officials. The new application called for one new consolidated pond with an adjacent detention pond between the Newman Gymnasium parking lot and an apartment complex on Glenwood Drive, not part of the campus.

. The city’s request to build an 832-square-foot hazardous waste storage building at the public works facility at 530 Maine Ave. City Engineer Jim Ring said the small, secure storage shed will take the place of the existing waste container, a 50-cubic-yard “glorified dumpster,” Ring said.

It will house hazardous material used by public works and the motor pool, such as paint thinner, solvents and used oil and antifreeze, until enough is collected to warrant disposal. The shed also might be used to temporarily store household hazardous waste brought in by the public during the annual fall collection program.