Finance Committee unanimously approved $50,000 warrant article for wastewater cost analysis. Chair David Abel and the nine-member committee voted to forward the article to the Select Board, framed as providing taxpayers with comprehensive information about the costs of the wastewater program.
Orleans Affordable Housing Trust voted to raise emergency loan maximum to $40,000. Chair Tom Jurkowski led the unanimous 6-0 votes to increase the Housing Emergency Loan Program cap from $20,000 to $40,000 and allocate an additional $65,000, establishing an annual September review cycle.
Orleans Affordable Housing Trust doubles its emergency loan cap and clears a $1 property sale. The trust voted 6-0-0 to raise its home-repair loan maximum from $20,000 to $40,000 and added $65,000 to the program, bringing available funds to roughly $120,000.
Orleans Board of Health approves septic and pool-fence variances, one homeowner withdraws fence-free bid.
Orleans Site Plan Review Committee unanimously approved a site plan for 20 new employee and workforce housing units in a new building at Seashore Park Inn, 24 Canal Road, on September 16.
Orleans zoning board approves a 7,334-square-foot Viking Road rebuild, rejects rental limits.
Orleans panel clears 20-unit workforce housing plan for former Seashore Park Inn, 5-0. The Site Plan Review Committee approved, with six conditions, a new 20-unit building at 24 Canal Road, scaling back an earlier plan that also would have renovated the property's defunct indoor pool.
Orleans Open Space Committee eyes partnership deal for scenic Monument Road parcel near Pilgrim Lake.
The Marion Craine Gallery Committee met to plan exhibitions at Snow Library.
Conservation Commission approved two residential projects, continued four more.
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