Minutes of the  Sweden Planning Board Meeting at the Meeting House  Thursday July 12, 2007   

1. Chairperson Grace Keef called  the meeting to order at 7:00 p. m.

PRESENT: Planning Board chairperson Grace Keef.

Planning Board members: Julie McQueen, Rob Slattery, Wolfgang Duve, Alternate member John P. Smith

Absent:Ron Kiesman, Alternate Gail Bartlett

CEO: Eric Gulbrandsen

2. There were no visitors.

3. Wolfgang  motioned that we skip reading the minutes and the Public Hearing minutes from the June 14

               meeting since everyone present had previously read them. Rob seconded the motion. The motion

               to skip the reading was approved unanimously.

     Wolfgang motioned to approve the meeting and public hearing minutes from the June 14 meeting, and

               Rob seconded the motion. The minutes were approved unanimously.

4. CEO Report. Eric read the CEO report for June2007. Wolfgang motioned to accept the

               CEO report and Rob seconded the motion.

               The CEO’s report was approved unanimously.

5. Old Business:

     We have a copy of new Shoreland Zoning on disk. Ordinances must be amended by

               July 1, 2008. The ordinance must be approved by the DEP, so Julie will send a

               copy of the Ordinance, the Subdivision regulations and the maps to the DEP for

               their review.

      Attendees discussed the potential for changing the way permit fees are calculated.

               They have been based on valuations, which are no longer easy to obtain. Eric has

               been working with 1992 (or 1996?) valuations which comes to almost $0.18/SF.

      Other towns (Denmark, Lovell) have adopted language which determine a minimum

               fee plus a fee/SF. (Fryeburg is currently at approximately $0.12/SF). We will

               consider language which allows the CEO to establish permit fees with the

               Selectmen annually so the ordinance does not have to be changed every time the

               fees are changed.

     We should also should review Sweden’s Subdivision Regulations against the new Model

               Regulations from SMRPC. As we are using the new Subdivision regulations we

               are not seeing a need for additional changes at this time. Changes to comply with

               the Comprehensive Plan that was approved in May of 2004 and new State Laws

               have already been incorporated.

6. New Business:

    No new business.

    Since there appears to be no new business at this time, John Smith (standing in for regular member Ron

               Kiesman who was absent) motioned and Wolfgang seconded that the Board not hold an August

               meeting unless someone contacts the Chair, Grace Keefe and requests to be on the agenda by July

               26^th. Eric will put a notice in the Bridgton News that there will be no Planning Board meeting on

               August 9, 2007.

7. Announcements:

The next meeting will be on Thursday September 13,  2007 at 7:00 PM. At the Town Meeting House.

 8. A motion was made by Wolfgang  to adjourn the meeting, seconded by Rob, voted on and accepted.

Adjourned at 7:25 PM.