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My Travel Pages-Photos from??

Overview-Home Page/Introduction

Virginia, Maine's First Ship

Popham Art Gallery - See you Next Year!

Pot Luck every second Saturday at 6- at the Chapel house

Popham Development Issues

We Lost Our Appeal of the Chester Building Permit

This has allowed a non-professional "Board" in Phippsburg to make arbitrary decisions about wetlands which are in direct contradiction with the State's experts and which ignor seasonal fluctuations in water levels of the nearby lake.

The court's opinion here (large!)

Preliminary steps to assess the condition of Fort Popham, Summary, click here soon. See the Friends of Phippsburg web site; http://friendsofphippsburg.org/. The Friends first mission is to help raise funds (which the state can't) for the stabilization of Fort Popham.

DEP Grants Full Sand Dune Permit for Pfeifer

No public input of any kind allowed.

Images of Recently Permitted Popham Development

My Backyard or Why I'm a NIMBY

Permitting Information; Permit types -copies of issued permits and applications - How does this stuff get permitted??

Maine DEP Permits

Explanation/Definition

Process/Timetables for Actual Permits Issued
Permit-Hill/Wyatt/Johnson
Permit-Chester/Stimson

1986 Hill DEP Application

Permitting Application (PDF)

for same sites as Wyatt/ Johnson/C Hill sites now built

 
Phippsburg Building Permits on my road, or "how to get through permitting in Phippsburg in ridiculous places"

Building Permit-

Johnson/C. Hill (PDF)

Two Same Maps Submitted by the same agent with different wetland designations for Hill/Johnson/Wyatt Building Permits;

First map submitted with Hill/Johnson/Clark Hill Permit with P1- "Pond Zone - (PDF)

Same map as above submitted with Wyatt Permit with no P1- "Pond Zone"(PDF)

Maine DEP

Notices Of Violation of Federal "National Resource Protection Act" in my neighborhood:

 

Phippsburg

Board Of Appeals: Requests/Rulings/DEP letters

Applications
coming soon-Poliquin Beach Club
Appeal of Chester Building Permit Shoreland Zoning Ordinance/Board of Appeals Decision
Maine DEP letter (PDF) to Board of Appeals contradicting Phippsburg's Shoreland Zoning Protection Zone findings for Chester building site
State and Local Laws:
Phippsburg Shoreland Zoning Ordinance
EPA Regs and Definitions
Maine Courts:
Decisions Pending

Phippsburg Building Permit Appeal
Decisions Rendered
Norris et. al. Vs. Phippsburg (large PDF file-6MB)- Building Permit Upheld
 
 Comprehensive Plan Issues