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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2008-01-28 08-074 RESOLVECOUNCIL ACTION Date: January 28, 2008 Item Nq 08 074 Item/Subject Resolve, Reallocating the Designated Area of Bangers Pine Tree Zone Responsible Department Community & Ewnomic Development Commentary: HEARING - Prior to voting on the Resolve, the Council is required to hold a Public Nearing on the amendment to the Bangor Pine Tree Zone. This Resolve wN amend the City's Pine Tree Zone area. Maine Secure Composites, LLC has requested that the Bangor Pine Tree Zone be amended to include a parcel on Tax Map R8 Wt SF. Maine Sewre Camposkes will be leasing a 4,200 sq. ft building on the 4.37 acre lot at 154 Hildreth St. North to manufacture composite shipping containers. Maine Secure Composites has worked collaboratively with the University of Maine over the last two years to design and prototype an Intrusion resistant composite shipping contalner under a US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) compact. During that period, Marne Secure Composites has operated from the Taget Technology Center. The shipping container Is designed to be lighter Nan current steel containers, Incorporate an Imbedded security system to detect intrusions, and have lower maintenance costs. Maine Secure Composites currently employs five (5) full time and six (6) part time employees. They expect to have ten (10) employees by the and of the testing and evaluation phase in about two years. This item has been reviewed and is recommended for approval by the Busiress & [Economic Development Committee. Department Head Managers Comments: City Manager Associated Inforonation: Attached Is a map indicamng the amended Pine Tree Zone Finance Director e2 w city solfci—� Passage _ Fist Reading Page _ of _ Referral A 074 Ap"r1e Asalgoed to Councilor Palmer January 28, 2008 CITY OF BANGOR IV (TITLE.) Resolve, Reallocating the Designated Area of Bangor's Pine Tree Zone WHEREAS, the City of Bangor by Council Resolve 09-189 designated approximately 350 acres located in Bangor, Maine as a Pine Tree Zone; and WHEREAS, the City of Bangor has agreed to maintain at least one pre -permitted development site within the Pine Tree Zone on a continual basis throughout the ten of the zone designation, but only M the extent that property so designated remains available for development; and WHEREAS, the City of Bangor hereby finds and determines that the purpose of this amendment to the Bangor Pine Tree Zone designated! area Is M more effectively encourage business Investment in Bangor in order to provide new employment opportunities, improve existing employment opportunities, improve and broaden the tax base and improve the general economy of the state; and WHEREAS, Me City of Bangor has resolved not to use Pine Tree Development Zane benefits M encourage or facilitate the transfer of existing positions or property of a qualified business or affiliated business to a qualified business activity from a nonqua0fied aOvity elsewhere in the State; and WHEREAS, on October 26, 201 the State of Maine, Department of Economic and Community Development, notified members of the Penobscot Valley Pine Tree Zone (PVPFZ) Mat the WPTZ had achieved final designation status; and WHEREAS, Me City of Bangor by Council Resolve 06-033 and Counal Resolve 07-061 amended Me location of the approximately 350 acres located in Bangor, Maine as a Pine Tree Zone; and WHEREAS, Maine Secure Composites, LLC has requested that a parcel of land on Tax Map RS LM 1F, 4.37 acres, be included in Bongoes Pine Tree Zone; and WHEREAS, one or more of the qualified business adivibes specified in Me Pine Tree Development Zone statute, 30-A MRSA c 206 sub -c. 4, is a permissible and suitable activity on Tax Map R8 Lot 1F under the land use regulations adopted by the City of Bangor; and WHEREAS, Maine Secure Composites, LLC has applied for certification as a business eligible for Pine Tree Zone benefits; and 38 074 WHEREAS, the property on Tax Map R8 Lot ] and Lot 11 will be removed from Bangor's Pine Trae Zone and the total acreage of Bangor's Pine Tree Zone will remain at approximately 350 acres; and WHEREAS, the City of Bangor has held a public hearing, notice of which was published In the Bangor Daily Hews M least ] days before the hearing, on the inclusion of the parcel on Tax Map R8 Lot 1F in Bangor's Pine Tree Zone; and WHEREAS, the Gty, of Bangor has kept an official record of the public hearing at which the reallocation of the area of the Bangor Pine Tree Zone was discussed: NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BANGOR THAT The City of Bangor removes the property described on Tax Map R8 Lot ] and Lot 11 from Bangor's Pine Tree Zone and designates the parcel of land described on Tax Map R8 Lot IF as part of Bangor's Pine Tree Zone to be included in the Penobscot Valley Pine Tree Zone and hereby authorizes the me administrator, EMDC, 90 Harlow Street, Bangor, Maine 09401, a private non-profit regional development agency, to properly submit on behalf of the City of Bangor this Resolution be amend the boundary area of the Bangor Fine Tree Zone to the Commissioner of the Department of Economic and Community Development pursuant to Maine Deparbnent of Economic and Community Development, 19.100 CMR 19-100-100.5 am! further authorizes a letter of transmittal to the zone administrator as required by Maine Department of Economic and Community Development, 19 100 CMR 19-100-100.5 ilk �2- «\\ \\2 � \� \# IH CLZL COHHCLL Jame 28. 2008 Motion Made and Secooded to Open tlfe PubUe HeerL fifc Hearing Opened Anthony Hseeli Yapained the Mature of his business to the Couoeil and stewed samples of tM conpostie materials Motion Hede and Seconded to Close the Pahlic Hearing I Public Hearing Closed Motion Mede and Seconded for Pass Yae LTY CLffi F 08-076. III V fL111EJ Reallocating the Designated Area Ili of Saner's Pine Tree Zone Mo d cwatm.