NOTICE OF MEETING
AND
PUBLIC HEARING
Casco Planning Board
May 11, 2015
Casco Community Center
940 Meadow Road
7:00 P.M.
1. Approve Minutes of April 13, 2015
2. The Casco Planning Board will conduct a PUBLIC HEARING regarding proposed
changes to correct certain discrepancies and weaknesses in the Casco Zoning Ordinance
3.
Other
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7.5 CRITERIA
STANDARDS
COMMENT
AND
I. Exterior
Lighting:
All
exterior
lighting
shall
be
designed
to
minimize adverse impact
on
neighboring
properties
and
public
ways. Adverse impact is
to be judged in terms of
hazards to people and
vehicular
traffic
and
damage to the value of
adjacent
properties.
Lighting
shall
be
arranged
to
minimize
glare and reflection on
adjacent properties and
the traveling public.
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There is no
performance
standard for
Lighting and
currently only
exists in the
Site Plan
criteria as
shown herein.
This will give
the Planning
Board standards
to evaluate
applications.
Article 5 Section
5.2.32. Exterior
Lighting.
In connection with
every site plan,
exclusive plans
involving the
development of a
single family or a
duplex dwelling, the
applicant shall
submit plans for all
proposed exterior
lighting. These plans
shall include the
location, type of
light, radius of
light, manufacturer's
specifications sheet
and the intensity in
footcandles.
The following design
standards shall be
followed for all
allowed land uses
proposing exterior
lighting:
a. The maximum height
of freestanding
lights shall be the
same as the principal
building but not
exceeding twenty-five
(25) feet.
b. All lights shall
be shielded to
restrict the maximum
apex angle of the
cone of illumination
to one hundred fifty
(150) degrees.
c. Where lights along
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property lines will
be visible to
adjacent residents,
the lights shall be
appropriately
shielded.
d. Spotlight-type
fixtures attached to
buildings shall be
avoided.
e. Freestanding
lights shall be so
located and protected
as to avoid being
easily damaged by
vehicles.
f. Lighting shall be
located along
streets, parking
areas, at
intersections and
crosswalks and where
various types of
circulation systems
merge, intersect or
split.
g. Pathways,
sidewalks and trails
shall be lighted with
low or mushroom-type
standards.
h. Public accessed
areas such as
stairways and sloping
or rising paths,
building entrances
and exits require
illumination.
i. Lighting shall be
provided where
buildings are set
back or offset.
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j. The following
intensity in footcandles shall be
provided:
1) Parking lots:
an average of one
and five-tenths
(1.5) footcandles
throughout.
2) Intersections:
three (3) footcandles.
3) Maximum at
property lines:
one and zerotenths (1.0) footcandle.
k. In residential
areas: average of
six-tenths (0.6)
foot-candle.
l. Display lighting
shall be shielded and
shall be so located
and maintained as not
to constitute a
hazard or nuisance to
the traveling public
or to neighbors.
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Impervious Surface Structures and other
man-made improvements
to
land,
and
materials
covering
the
land,
which
substantially reduce
the infiltration of
water.
Impervious
surfaces
shall
include but not be
limited
to
roofs,
paved
areas,
and
parking
lots
and
driveways, regardless
of surface materials.
No Definition exists
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COMMENT
This definition
was derived from
other Town’s
definitions and
molded to the
Board’s request.
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Article
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Definitions:
Impervious Surface.
A surface that has
been compacted or
covered with a layer
of non vegetative
material so that it
is highly resistant
to infiltration by
water. Examples
include, but are not
limited to,
buildings,
structures,
bituminous pavement,
concrete, compacted
aggregates or
gravel. Manmade
surfaces with a
percolation rate
faster than 120
minutes per inch
shall not be
considered
impervious.
Impervious Area. The
ratio of the
horizontal area, of
all impervious
surfaces on a lot to
the total lot area.
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Driveway
A
vehicular access-way
less
than
five
hundred (500) feet
in
length
serving
two
single-family
dwellings
or
one
two-family dwelling,
or less.
Erosion Control:- No
definition exists
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We will
eliminate the
driveway
distance.
NEW
Driveway - Access
route or right-ofway to any singlefamily dwelling or
to a duplex, or
multiplex building
except where such
buildings are
developed as part of
a larger
subdivision.
Driveway access for
residential uses
must meet Access to
Property standards.
Erosion and
Sedimentation
Control - The
placement of
vegetation, such as
grasses and native
weed species, and
other materials,
such as straw,
fiber, stabilizing
emulsion, protective
blankets, etc., on
areas disturbed by
grading operations
and /or applications
of physical
practices, such as
installation of silt
fence, stone check
dams, sediment
traps, etc.. Erosion
and sedimentation
control measures
reduce the loss of
soil due to the
action of water or
wind and minimize
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water pollution,
that help reduce the
likelihood of eroded
soil particles
suspended in
stormwater from
being deposited in a
stream, lake or
other body of water.