CITY OF PORTLAND, MAINE
PUBLIC HEARING
Portland Planning Board
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DATE:
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9/26/2006
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TIME:
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7:30 PM
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LOCATION:
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Room 209, 2nd Floor
Portland City Hall, 389 Congress Street
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AGENDA
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ROLL CALL AND DECLARATION OF QUORUM |
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COMMUNICATIONS AND REPORTS |
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REPORT OF ATTENDANCE AT THE PREVIOUS MEETINGS HELD ON:
September 19th, 2006 Workshop:Beal, Hall, Lowry, Odokara, Patterson and Tevanian present,; Silk absent.
September 19th, 2006 Public Hearing: Beal, Hall, Lowry, Odokara, Patterson, Silk and Tevanian present.
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ANNOUNCEMENT OF DECISIONS AT THE PREVIOUS MEETING, HELD ON SEPTEMBER 19TH, 2006.
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| i | Packard Development; Reconsideration of Traffic Movement Permit; Vicinity of 33 Allen Avenue; requested by Debra Keenan.
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| The Portland Planning Board voted 4-1 (Hall and Lowry recused; Tevanian opposed) to reaffirm their prior approval of the traffic movement permit. |
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| ii | Pharmacy; Vicinity of 365 Allen Avenue; Rite Aid Corporation, Applicant. |
| The Portland Planning Board voted 6-0 (Beal recused) to approve the site plan, subject to nine (9) conditions of approval. |
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| iii | Bayside Railyard Temporary Parking; Vicinity of 163 Preble Street; Bayside Ventures, LLC., Applicant.
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| The Portland Planning Board voted 7-0 to approve the conditional use; the Board also voted 7-0 to waive the sidewalk requirements substituting a temporary bituminous sidewalk for the driveway to the corner of Elm Street and the Board also voted 7-0 to approve the site plan subject to three (3) conditions of approval. |
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NEW BUSINESS |
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| i | Bayside Railyard Parking Garage; Vicinity of 25 Somerset Street; Bayside Ventures, Downtown Portland Corporation and the City of Portland, Applicants. (7:30 – 8:30 p.m.) |
| The Portland Planning Board will hold a public hearing to consider a plan by the City of Portland for a proposed 700 space parking garage in the vicinity of 25 Somerset Street. The Downtown Portland Corporation is a co-applicant. Vehicle access to the parking garage would be off of Somerset Street. The first floor of the parking garage will have 20,000 sq. ft. of retail space. The garage/building footprint is about 35,530 sq. ft. The parking garage is 6 levels high. |
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| ii | Tow Lots – Text Amendment (8:30 – 9:00 p.m.) |
| The Portland Planning Board will hold a public hearing to consider a proposal by the City of Portland to make ordinance text amendments to clarify and expand permissable locations for tow lots under the zoning ordinances for B-4, I-M and I-H zones and to clarify the traffic ordinance's location requirements for tow lots. |
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ADJOURNMENT | NOTE: It is possible that the Board will not reach all of the items prior to adjournment. Any items not reached will be rescheduled to appear on the subsequent agenda with items appearing early on the agenda as unfinished business.
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