BANGOR – The city’s planning board took action on Tuesday night on two of the three project applications put on hold during their meeting two weeks ago.
Approved during the meeting was a decision on a proposal to move the KFC franchise on Broadway to a new location in the Broadway Shopping Center parking lot. Co-applicants for conditional use and site plan approval needed for the project were Matt T LLC and Inland Western Bangor LLC, according to city documents related to the project.
In their decision earlier this month to delay action on the project, a majority of board members cited concerns about what they saw as poorly defined pedestrian access between the proposed restaurant site and the rest of the shopping center, as well as about some of the language contained in a draft Department of Transportation traffic movement permit.
In granting its approval on Tuesday, the board imposed the condition that sidewalks must be built to connect the fast-food franchise with the main portion of the shopping center. Since the board’s last meeting, the DOT has worked out a driveway access plan acceptable to all of the businesses affected and issued a permit last week, according to Planning Officer David Gould.
Also approved was a final plan for a proposed 14-lot subdivision at 1397 Essex St. called East Ridge Estates planned by Woods of Maine Inc.
The planning board earlier decided to withhold its approval until the developer submitted executed homeowners’ association documents.
The documents, which now have been submitted, address such matters as how stormwater treatment devices would be maintained and how common open space would be managed.
Continued again was TJS Realty’s application for preliminary subdivision plan approval for a 23-lot cluster residential subdivision on a 16.47-acre parcel off Grandview and Greenfield avenues.
If approved, the subdivision would be served by private streets, one of them an extension of Greenfield Avenue and the other a proposed new street that would be named Brookfield Lane.
Board members decided earlier this month that they wanted to see the land firsthand before making any decisions.
Despite a site visit last week, the board members wanted more information about soils, stormwater management and open space arrangements. The application is slated to return before the board during its next meeting, scheduled for 7 p.m. Tuesday, June 3.
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