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CITY COUNCIL ACTION
Council Meeting Date: September 27, 2021
Item No: 21-347
Responsible Dept: Planning
Action Requested: Zone Change Map/Lot: 53/88
Title, Ordinance
Amending Chapter 165, Land Development Code, District Map by Changing the Parcel of Land addressed at 206
Birch Street from Urban Residence 1 (URD-1) to Urban Residence 2 (URD-2)
Summary
This ordinance would change a .18 acre parcel of land located at 206 Birch Street from URD-1 to URD-2 to
allow for a second residential unit.
This is a request from the owner Dolan. The 2012 Comprehensive Plan labeled this lot as URD-1, and it is
surrounded by URD-1, but there are many other existing two-family residences in the area. The policy of the
City Council has been, in the last few years, to create housing units where reasonable and feasible.
Staff Comments & Approvals
Planning Board meeting October 5, 2021
City Manager
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City Solicitor
Introduced for: First Reading and Referral to Planning Board of October 5, 2021
Finance Director
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CITY COUNCIL ORDINANCE
Date: September 27, 2021
Assigned to Councilor: Hawes
ORDINANCE, Amending Chapter 165, Land Development Code, District Map by Changing the Parcel of Land
addressed at 206 Birch Street from Urban Residence 1 (URD-1) to Urban Residence 2 (URD-2)
WHEREAS, the City Council has a policy to create new residential units where feasible;
WHEREAS, while the 2012 Comprehensive Plan considered 206 Birch Street to be URD-1, there are many
existing two-family residences in the area;
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BANGOR AS FOLLOWS, THAT
Chapter 165 of the Code of the City of Bangor is amended as follows:
The Zoning District Map is hereby changed by changing the parcel of land at 206 Birch Street from Urban
Residence 1 (URD-1) to Urban Residence 2 (URD-2). Said parcel contains approximately .18 acres in size and
being more particularly indicated on the map attached hereto and made a part hereof.
IN CITY COUNCIL
SEPTEMBER 27,2021
COrd 21-347
First Reading and Referral to Planning Board Meeting on October 5,2021
CITY CLERK/
IN CITY COUNCIL
OCTOBER 13,2021
COrd 21-347
Motion made and seconded for Passage
Vote: 7—0
Councilors Voting Yes: Davitt, Fournier,Hawes,Nichols, Schaefer, Sprague,Tremble
Councilors Voting No: None
Passed
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Memorandum
To: Honorable Bangor City Council
Deb Laurie, Acting City Manager
From: Anne M Krieg AICP, Planning Officer
Date: October 6, 2021
CC: Courtney O'Donnell, Assistant City Manager
Tanya Emery, Director of Community and Economic Development
Joshua Saucier, Assistant City Solicitor
Jeff Wallace, Code Enforcement Officer
Re: Planning Board Recommendation October 5, 2021
Zone Change — 206 Birch Street — Map -Lot 053-088 — from Urban Residence 1 District
(URD-1) to Urban Residence 2 District (URD-2) — Applicant: Bradley A. Dolan; Agent:
The Masiello Group c/o Ansley Moore
Please accept this memorandum as the recommendation from the Planning Board for the noted item
The Planning Board considered this item in a noticed public hearing on October 5, 2021.
The meeting was conducted in the Council Chambers at City Hall. Some members of the public, as
well as the Assistant City Solicitor, attended on the city's Zoom account. Members in attendance
were the Chair, Ken Huhn, Reece Perkins, Mike Bazinet, Don Meagher and Ted Brush.
The representative for the applicant, realtor Ansley Moore presented the application. They are
looking to have 2 units on the site.
An adjacent property owner on Zoom asked questions about property boundaries and animal
trespassing. These items will be addressed separately as the concerns are outside the authority of
the Planning Board.
Member Meagher made a motion, with a second from Member Bazinet to recommend to the City
Council that the zone change ought to pass. The motion carried with Huhn, Bazinet, Meagher and
Brush in favor and Perkins dissenting.
Member Perkins provided a minority opinion that he sees these requests as spot zoning. He reads
the Comprehensive Plan as limiting multi -family to keep single family neighborhoods intact. His
understanding of the Affordable Housing Work Group was to increase housing. He added that the
Board should consider rezoning areas to URD-2 if that's what we want to do instead of piecemeal
approaches.
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