Planning Board gives green light to new hospital office constructionBy Ben Hoolbrook | Nov 02, 2015
Approval contingent on hospital receiving state permitsBelfast — Planning Board members approved plans by Waldo County General Hospital to construct a new office building on the condition necessary state permits are received.
The focus of the Oct. 28 meeting was addressing a few outstanding issues raised during a prior review of the construction plan.
Mike Hogan of The Maine Group Architects, speaking on behalf of the hospital, said two improvements shown in the plan will need approval from city councilors, but he wanted Planning Board members to review and sign off on them first.
One of the improvements would involve installing a flashing beacon near a pedestrian crosswalk. That beacon, according to Assistant City Planner Sadie Lloyd, would be similar to the one at the intersection of Route 1 and Route 141.
Additionally, a semi-dead maple tree that interferes with the location for an entrance driveway to the site needs to be removed. Three hawthorn trees will be planted in its place, Hogan said. Council approval is needed before the tree can be removed, he said.
Hogan said Maine Department of Environmental Protection is reviewing the project and the hospital hopes permits will be issued in the near future.
No comments were offered during a brief public hearing.
Lloyd addressed flood plain, wetlands and stormwater management, which required additional review. Lloyd said a portion of a ditch at the rear of the property is located with new flood plain maps and the hospital is looking at filling it in. Alternative water storage and drainage areas will be provided on the property, she said.
The hospital received permission to fill in the ditch after working with the city's code enforcement officer, Lloyd said.
Because some wetlands on the property will be disturbed as a result of the project, an application was submitted to DEP Sept. 28 for a National Resources Protection Act permit and Site Location of Development Act permit, Lloyd said. Planning Board members can OK the project with the condition that DEP approves it as well, she said.
As long as the stormwater improvements are installed as shown on the plan, Lloyd said the city engineer does not have any concerns. However, Lloyd said the city engineer asked, in the event any changes are made to the stormwater management plan, it be resubmitted for review to ensure it still meets city standards.
The new 20,000-square-foot office will be located across Northport Avenue from the hospital, on a lot previously occupied by a motel used as a training center and for temporary overnight accommodations for doctors. The building will be 38 feet in height, which takes into account equipment, such as air exchange systems, that will be located on the roof of the structure.
Planning Board members voted unanimously to approve the site plan and use permit for the project. They also approved a second motion supporting the installation of a flashing beacon and removal of the maple tree.
6/30/2015 Sneaky Delete by BDN. They removed my (auntiebully) reply to 8PI after closing comments down.
No equally corrupt. I've been uncovering corruption after corruption, DEP, EPA, DHHS, Maine Realtor Commission face to face with Mike Thibodeau, Chuckie LeRage, requests to meet with Chuckie and Mrs refused, Attorney General sends me back to Belfast City Hall- they tell employees not to give me any information and bury the public documents.
City Attorney Bill Kelly has sent many unethical letters to intimidate me, they try to stop me from speaking at City Council meetings (over 50), alienate me from the community with slander, then began having a police guard for me after I kept coming to meetings, City Council called me in as a threat to the Chief of Police, I had to go into the station for an interview and was cleared. An officer followed me outside after a meeting to "talk" to me and tried to convince me to step back, I said no, then he tried to shame me as a mother and I left. Another time the Chief and the same officer came to my house to "talk" to me. I invited them in. They had a tip that I was unstable and came to interview me. When I didn't cave, the Chief then tried to shame me as mother. Told him we're done and my kids are off limits.
I protest with signs all over, Chuckie, Olympia Snowe and George Mitchell- I was front and center when they came to Belfast. I tried Angus King, FBI, Hilary, Obama, Elizabeth Warren even Bill Maher when he came to Portland. JB Turner, FSS in almost every meeting I spoke at and sometimes with the FSS owners. They could care less- taking property taxes and targeted residents denied basic infrastructure and services.
The corruption is enormous and so easy to prove if others would stand up. City Hall tries and tries to get me into a legal battle but I know they will bury me and silence me. The attorneys spin and win regardless, as does City Hall. Tax payers foot the bill. And if Judge Patricia Worth is ruling, forget about it, no matter how much you prove. I had first hand experience with her in small claims and then googled her and saw a history of corrupt rulings. Her husband? John Worth III is on the WCGH Board of Directors with JB.
I've got 6-7 blogs of rhetoric corruption, spinning me like a top and hoping I'll drop. The secret Comprehensive Plan just passed this fall echoes the TPP tactics. I have nothing left to lose. I'll keep going. Public works nailed me good this winter with snow. Targeting my driveway and face to face refusing to move snow from my property but did it for the rest of the street. You have no idea.
Kicking a 54 year old Mom from a scary marriage got out and won rarely granted relocation. 500 miles to Belfast or Bust. Belfast Agents sold me undisclosed City Hall water slaughter hell in 2010. The property inspector DJ Brown also corrupted report. Damn near broke me when that flooding tore through my yard and took 1/4 of my backyard with it in 4/2011. All City Hall doors slamming shut. I was barely holding on.
I'm stronger than ever now and will not back down. The most hated woman in downtown, possibly all town Belfast. Even child hood friends bailed on me. I summered in Bayside since 1969 and built my own year round house there in 1997 and lost it in the divorce. I know lots of people and they look the other way or are implicated themselves. Afraid or dirty. Not me. Thanks for your support though. I thought- here we go again- some else is going to try to take me down. You are one of the few- I think number two. It's shocking.
6/19/2015 Bangor Daily News didn't delete my comment for their article Waldo County General Hospital and Pen Bay Medical merge http://bangordailynews.com/2015/06/18/health/merger-of-pen-bay-and-waldo-county-healthcare-boards-to-require-state-ok/?ref=comments
6/16/2015- This page link is from 2/13/15 when the Annex addition was announced.
http://boycottbelfast.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_15.html
Article in the Bangor Daily News stating they had to wait 6 months for a demolition permit. As you read below, you will see, as an abutter On 4/17, I emailed in concerns for the demolition that were to be answered in the 4/22/15 Planning Board meeting when Mike Hogan gave his presentation for the addition. My concerns were not even read and not addressed. "
"In the letter dated 4/10/2015 to abutting property owners, Wayne writes "The project involves the demolition of the former motel building on the site, an expansions of the current parking area, relocation of the existing access driveway from Northport Avenue to the property and SIMILAR CHANGES."
That motel is old and probably has asbestos.
10. Please advise if the motel has asbestos.
11. If so, also advise what the procedure is for demolition to contain the asbestos from.
12. Please advise in writing what all the "SIMILAR CHANGES" are by Tuesday 4/21. One day prior to the site meeting on 4/22/15.
13. What are the details and paths for all drainage, please send me a map with the full paths to the stream and which paths abutt my property.
Sincerely,
Laurie Allen"
On Mother's Day weekend, 5/10/2015 I watched in horror as they demolished the old motel, feet from my backyard, without any notice or precautions, doubtful if they even got the permit. Six months would have been August.
6/13/2015 Article below is in today's local City Hall sympathizer paper. Note that the reporter (who knows me well and blocked me months ago when I told him he has sold out by not questioning illegal issues with the Annex site) doesn't question how they were able to demolish the motel without regulations... nor my concerns as an abutter, nor, nor, nor.... History below article on this new site corruption alone. Read where City Planner Wayne Marhsall states he will forward my emails to the Planning Board but instead creates his own "synopsis" of the least of my concerns and even fabricates another that was irrelevant to make me seem irrelevant and difficult. His tactic for 5 years now. Every City employee is owned. Go along to keep your job. Counter the guilt by joining in to kick me harder.
An anonymous commenter continues cowardly abuse.Planning Board member Margot Carpenter publicly denounced my fight to save my home as drama. She is superior as one of the good ole boys. Simply look at past meetings- constantly checking to see if the camera is on her. The pity is that she has the potential and certainly the education but not the ethics or courage. Yet...
I waited 5 years to publicly speak to Belfast City Planning. One chance to expose their corruption. City Planner Wayne Marshall tried to shut me up. I kept going. Three minutes is all I needed. Two planning members that ridiculed me and my home, were absent. Margot Carpenter- in 7/2014 publicly announcing me as a drama queen. Russel Barber- in 5/2011, with the entire planning board present for a site meeting at the Annex (almost in my backyard). I was standing right next to Russel, he knew this was my house. Russel spoke to member Roger Pickering while pointing to my property and laughing "How would you like to own that property?" Roger shook his head. I was sick. I had yet to uncover all the forced slaughter water to my property by Belfast City Planning. All illegal and funny to them. This is a 3-4 minute clip of the 5/27/2015 meeting
The full meeting is in the link below.
5/30/2015 The Belfast City Planner, Wayne Marshall manipulates and with holds my communications to the Planning Board and he confirms that in the link below. Those that truly want to see the corruption will see it. Please take the time to read and watch. Mike Hogan's presentation is not very relevant. He doesn't address the issue- the water. They all dance around it, they always do.
Wayne Marshall manipulating the public after I left. Full 5/27/2015 Planning Board meeting link and email history
http://boycottbelfast.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_73.html
Clearly, Marshall, Slocum, Hurley and City Attorney Bill Kelly have illness. Add Governor Chuckie LeRage too... . Their recruiting of the sane and once ethical is astonishing. See supporting evidence of illness in government and corruption... high functioning white collar thugs. Read government illness- http://boycottbelfast.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_49.html
6/1/2015 - I had sent this City employee, Nora McGrath, 2 emails to forward to the Planning Board. Why didn't Nora email me back and tell me that she would not do that? Very sad. A woman too. Wayne throws Nora under the bus by sharing her email. City Hall owns City employees "Big". The Wall to shut out the voice of the people and their rights.
Trying to silence me again and again to not speak personally. It's just corrupt business for them. It's not their home or life. They destroy many lives and homes, totally personal slaughter. Economic Development Collar Genocide are very strong words. Stress and forced flooding by City officials kills. We are in danger- every storm is Russian roulette. Will this be the one that takes us out? Look at the map. We don't even have a chance. They have made sure of that.
| From: | Wayne Marshall (planner@cityofbelfast.org) This sender is in your contact list. |
| Sent: | Fri 5/29/15 1:32 PM |
| To: | Nora McGrath (managersoffice@cityofbelfast.org); LAURIE ALLEN (laurieallen55@msn.com) |
Dear Ms. Allen
Nora McGrath forwarded your email to her to me and asked that I respond.On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 12:45 PM, Nora McGrath <managersoffice@cityofbelfast.org> wrote:
Nooooooooooo!!!!!!!
I will (again) not respond to this, but anything you can do to get her off my case, I would be happy to owe you BIG!!!!
From: LAURIE ALLEN <laurieallen55@msn.com>
Date: Fri, May 29, 2015 at 12:31 PM
Subject: Planning Board
To: "nmcgrath@cityofbelfast.org" <nmcgrath@cityofbelfast.org>
Dear Ms. McGrath,
Please forward this to the Planning Board. Wayne Marshall skews my emails- presenting his "synopsis" of my direct communications to the board.Thank you.
Sincerely,
Laurie Allen
(6/13/15 Note- the emails (above and below) I asked Nora to forward are the email's concerns below the article that were originally sent to Wayne Marshall and others. I wanted to make sure the Planning Board was accountable and in receipt of my documented concerns before I called them out. I know most read my blog but that is subjective. I had hope for Planning member Wayne Corey (Engineer Degree) but he failed. When I was protesting outside Left Banks Books in 2013? (Olympia Snowe was there for her book signing), Wayne Corey approached me. He said he couldn't discuss planning issues that are destroying my property but he'd could charge me for construction to stabilize my property from future forced flooding by Planning... After that, I wrote him a letter of the corruption to my property and delivered it to the gym where he works out with my neighbor. Just to be sure Corey knew. That was over a year ago. I waited for him to be ethical- he has 9 kids to be a role model for. Failed. He knows and is still able to face my neighbor every day. My neighbor has his property flooded too- not as bad as mine, but bad. These "officials" pretend to be his friend.)
| rom: | LAURIE ALLEN (laurieallen55@msn.com) |
| Sent: | Tue 5/26/15 6:20 PM |
| To: | nmcgrath@cityofbelfast.org (nmcgrath@cityofbelfast.org) |
I see you are the administrator for planning board meetings. Please forward this email to the planning board as Wayne stated he would do. I want them to see these pictures taken 4 years ago. The erosion is much worse, several trees are coming down. In this new proposal, the detention pond will spill out throughout the buffer zone as well as pound through the illegal path to the huge tree with root exposed in 2011. The Annex stock piled snow over 50 ft high 100 ft long- maybe more, in that area. They have got to stabilize the banks on their side.
Thank You,
Laurie Allen
Waldo County General Hospital revises new office construction plans
By Ben Holbrook | Jun 13, 2015Belfast — Waldo County General Hospital asked for guidance from the Planning Board with regard to potential changes to the site plan in an effort to minimize disruption to the wetlands on the property.
The hospital plans to construct a nearly 20,000-square-foot office building across Northport Avenue from the hospital, on a lot previously occupied by a motel used as a training center and for temporary overnight accommodations for doctors. The motel is now demolished.
When Mike Hogan of The Maine Group Architects unveiled construction plans for the new building before the Belfast Planning Board April 22, he explained they would involve disrupting some wetlands on the property. He said the hospital's plans had been submitted to the Maine Department of Environmental Protection for review.
In an update before the Planning Board May 27, Hogan said MDEP will review the project as a common scheme of development. That means there would be three sites involved, Hogan said. Those sites include the location of the new building, the hospital site and an administration site that is just on the other side of Fahey Street.
Hogan explained the hospital has to report to MDEP all of the impervious coverage done to the sites since 1971. If the hospital has more than three acres of impervious coverage then it will have to go through the Site Location of Development Act, which will extend the permitting process.
In addition, if the hospital disturbs more than 15,000 square feet of wetlands among the three sites being reviewed, then a Tier II permit would be required. To avoid having to get into a Tier II permit review, Hogan said the hospital is trying to minimize the disturbance to the wetlands where the new office building will be located.
He noted about 14,000 square feet of wetlands already had been disturbed when the hospital expanded in 1998. The preliminary plan presented at the April 22 meeting would result in the hospital disturbing more than 15,000 square feet of wetlands, he said.
The purpose of returning before the Planning Board May 27 was to show a selection of strategies developed to reduce the impact to the wetlands, Hogan explained.
Preliminary plans for the project called for relocating the entrance drive to 119 Northport Ave., reconfiguring the islands and parking in front of the new building, as well as wrapping a drive aisle and parking around the rear of the office building.
Hogan said the hospital would like to use common scheme for the parking to redistribute the required number of spaces across all three of the sites versus having to meet the exact number required for any particular site.
He said the hospital has no intention of reducing the overall number of parking spaces as a result of the new office construction.
The strategies developed to reduce the impact to the wetlands include shifting the new office building so that more of it is out of the wetlands area and making adjustments to the parking behind the building.
He said the hospital is leaning toward a scheme that would preserve parking behind the building for staff members but truncate an access drive that goes all the way around behind the building. Hogan acknowledged there was a chance the hospital would have to eliminate all parking behind the building in order to not disturb more than 15,000 square feet of the wetlands.
The board voted to allow the hospital to use a combination of its three sites to satisfy the parking requirements.
Hogan also requested and was granted permission to place temporary modular buildings to be used for meetings and training where the motel stood prior to demolition. The buildings would be about 400-500 square feet in size.
Hogan also reported the Maine Department of Transportation has no issues with the hospital's application, and will be issuing a traffic movement permit.
The new two-story office building to be constructed will house physicians and provide space for training and administrative offices.
5/29/15- Before you watch/listen to Wayne manipulate my emails- read them below. I am relentless in asking for the City website to update the final zoning maps that were voted in by City Council 7 months ago. The secrecy of the zoning and ordinance aka Comprehensive Plan, the TPP of Belfast is the secret taking. It is much more than Seaview Terrace zoning but it is an alarm bell that they won't update public information until when? After the targeted public is demolished like they do again and again?
http://belfastme.swagit.com/play/05272015-1036/#2
I speak at the public hearing in #4 @ 38 minutes in. First, they get into a long discussion of parking options that and rhetoric that is not protocol. That is discussion for AFTER the public hearing with all Board concerns. After I leave, Wayne Marshall goes into manipulation indignation mode on inverse condemnation, eminent domain and lying about not ridding the healthcare district of single family housing. The man is delusional. This is his document explaining the Belfast City Planning vision through the new Comprehensive Plan where he is singling out Seaview Terrace and Wight St...Also lying by stating the 12 family dead end street is a "long established URBAN neighborhood"... No it is not. And this was another corrupt tactic the full saga of that is on this link (for 5 years it is one assualt after another onto Seaview Terrace, my home and my family.)
below copied from http://boycottbelfast.blogspot.com/p/7814-comp-plan-corruption.html
RESIDENTIAL 3 AREA
“HEALTH CARE & HOUSING”
Goal: To
provide an area in which health care facilities/offices and
professional offices are recognized as a primary use, and to establish
this area near Waldo County General Hospital.
Past, Current & Future Use
Waldo County General Hospital and the many physician offices that have
developed near the Hospital are now the prime uses in this area. The
Hospital underwent a significant expansion in the late 1990’s and
continues to expand. It is one of the key reasons people, particularly
retirees, from other areas in Maine and other states choose to live to
Belfast. Other health care facilities, such as the Tall Pines
Rehabilitation Center and Mid-coast Mental Health Services are also
located in this area. The Hospital likely will remain a key part of the
City’s fabric and it is important to allow reasonable opportunities for
the development of new health care related facilities, particularly
offices for physicians who want or need to be located near the Hospital.
It is noted that these active uses generate considerably more vehicular
traffic than residences, and such traffic could adversely affect the
desirability of the area for future housing development.
While the Hospital is the primary use, housing remains a significant
type of development in the area. Sea View Terrace is a long established
urban neighborhood, and single-family residential housing remains the
predominant use on Wight Street. Publicly supported housing, such as
Penobscot Terrace, Coastal Enterprises, and Huntress Gardens, also is
located in this area. While the City believes much of the current
housing will remain, in the longer term, more of the current single
family houses likely will be converted into professional offices, and
some of the limited amount of available land may similarly be used for
offices. The City believes it is appropriate to allow new housing in the
area, and there is a limited amount of land along Wight Street to
accommodate such, but it wants current and future residents in this area
to recognize that a health care office or facility likely could become
their neighbor.
The main goal for this area is to allow uses that support the delivery
of health care services. Thus, it is important that the City ensure that
other types of nonresidential uses, such as retail and non-health care
service providers, not be permitted in this area. The City now allows
such uses in many areas of Belfast, and the limited amount of land in
this area is too critical to the primary goal to encourage other types
of nonresidential uses.
@ 43:10 Karen Caswell steps up to speak to support the hospital. My house is the house she grew up in. Her father, Dr. Caswell was the original 1967 owner and began fighting the City for flooding that began. Another corrupt tale with the Belfast City Engineer report (with held from me). After Dr. Caswell died, Puzz Caswell, daughter in law and local corrupt realtor lived in the house. She even told me that the flooding is the City's fault but they won't fix it. She sold it to a banker (Moll) who sold it to Minister Tarpley, who sold it to me. Karen doesn't mention that. She still owns the lot next to me. Tried to sell it when I moved here in 2010- at 100k. After 2 years, she dropped to 25k and took it off the market. Has she made a deal since she isn't concerned for the trees that just fell into her lot from the stream? Seems so.
@ 45:32n Wayne tells the board he made his OWN synopsis of my requests, stating they were just received on 5/25. HE LIES AND LIES AND LIES AND THEY ALL KNOW IT. ALL OF CITY HALL KNOWS IT. ALL THE PLAYERS IN THE COMMUNITY KNOW IT. He has Mike Hogan get up to play his part. Hogan stating the banks are not hospital property but stating that the man he hired is investigating the property that the hospital DOES NOT own. It's all deceptive. Marshall brings an old map to show the stream is on my property. Even more outrageous because the map he gave to the engineer this past summer showed the stream was not on my property. The engineer used that map to get approval for the City to send more water to me with the illegal paving/culverting and ditching done the week of 9/8/2014 when they thought I'd be at my brother's funeral in Alabama. More details on when I exposed that corruption in the blog as well.
Bet heads are spinning in disbelief- you have no idea. Five years of enormous first hand corruption. Overwhelming with calculation. It's too much. The public will turn on me because they are sick of it. Most have, almost from the start.
The concerns that I sent at the first hearing were never read. SPECIFICALLY THE DEMOLITION OF THE OLD (1950) MOTEL AND REMOVAL OF ASBESTOS AND LEAD PAINT. Here is my 4/17 email for the 4/22 hearing that was never read. AT THIS 5/27 MEETING I STATE IT IS POINTLESS TO GO OVER CONCERNS. I leave and Wayne takes the liberty of paraphrasing and lying. Read my email from 4/22 then listen to him. He talks about the already existing building and concerns for that drainage??? The Board has that email and they let him do this, even support the lying after I just called them out on corruption.
For reader ease I will list the numbered 4/17 concerns that were for the 4/22 meeting here as well. They were not applicable to the 5/27 meeting as I was there to speak my concerns and focus on the drainage that will seep to the Midcoast Mental Health banks and falling trees. And of course, Hogan skirts that issue, by saying, not their problem. It's affecting me through MidCoast property... loop-holing and scheming to destroy private properties. After reading this, tell me why Wayne didn't read the email verbatim? Calculating manipulation and public tainting. It is clear to see he has mental illness that many in power have.
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2015 15:52:18 -0400
Wayne Marshall and Mike Hogan,
Concerns with the WCGH Annex Site and supporting documents to illegal slaughter to private property. Do Not Send Me Annex water. See concerns numbered on the site plan included in this album. https://picasaweb.google.com/105736045670734847961/Annex?authuser=0&feat=directlink
#1-4 (my ref on the site plan) are in view from my backyard- 17 Seaview.
A. What is the noise level ordinance (DBA) ?
B. Will noise barriers surround the transformer, generator and possible pump station?
C. Will aesthetic screening buffer my view of #1-4?
#5 Explain this completely. It appears to be a new drainage path that will flow to my private property. This is illegal under title 17:Crimes Chapter 91:nuisances subchapter 3 particular nuisances 2808. Altercation of surface water flow. Unreasonable use of land that results in altered flow of surface water that unreasonably injure's another's land or that unreasonably interferes with the use of another's land is a nuisance.
#6 The power pole is not there any more. See pictures of pole pre Annex extension 2011. Is that being replaced in the same spot or is there a change?
#7. Explain this completely. This area is where an enormous tree is. Illegal title 17 again. See pictures for tree and erosion.
#8. This drain swale was to be filled in and graded per the site plans for the Annex extension in 2011. See pictures of plan and water slaughter. Illegal title 17 again. Fill it in.
#9. This is where Mike Hogan and Planning Board member Diane Beck confirmed site drainage into Midcoast Mental Health stream property. After the site was completed, this site is draining at #8. Wayne Marshall and Mike Hogan responded with rhetoric and a green pipe that I NEVER asked about. See the picture of #8 and erosion to another massive tree root system on private property. Title 17.
In the letter dated 4/10/2015 to abutting property owners, Wayne writes "The project involves the demolition of the former motel building on the site, an expansions of the current parking area, relocation of the existing access driveway from Northport Avenue to the property and SIMILAR CHANGES."
That motel is old and probably has asbestos.
10. Please advise if the motel has asbestos.
11. If so, also advise what the procedure is for demolition to contain the asbestos from.
12. Please advise in writing what all the "SIMILAR CHANGES" are by Tuesday 4/21. One day prior to the site meeting on 4/22/15.
13. What are the details and paths for all drainage, please send me a map with the full paths to the stream and which paths abutt my property.
Sincerely,
Laurie Allen
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2015 15:06:26 -0400
Wayne Marshall and Mike Hogan,
Amend #13 from original email below dated 4/17/2015.
13. Please show and provide a mapped path for all storm/runoff/meltoff drainage (including roofs) for the entire 119-125 Annex site (including 2009 and 2011 additions). None of this drainage may drain into or through my property. Advise of specific points that will or may drain into the stream with Seaview Terrace lot # and boundaries on the opposing side. See link for boundary map picture the surveyors for the Annex used from Good Deeds, Belfast. https://picasaweb.google.com/105736045670734847961/Annex?authuser=0&feat=directlink
Add
14. Does the site to be demolished contain any lead paint? If so, what is the procedure for removal?
Below is the history of emails and confusion, forcing me into conjecture to be used against me and ridicule me into a nuisance.
1.
From: laurieallen55@msn.com
To: mainegroup@prexar.com; patricia.aho@maine.gov; laurieallen55@msn.com
Subject: Invasive Annex FW: #13 Annex Site 4/22 Concerns
Date: Thu, 21 May 2015 12:58:04 -0400
Mike Hogan and DEP Commissoner Aho,
I have proven that my private property is not a natural outlet and all the water forced to it is not legal. However Commissioner Aho closed the investigation. Currently the new site construction of the Annex has recently been denied since the proposed plans and abutters notice I received in April. My concerns have not been addressed and although new plans must now be proposed under DEP requirements for common scheme of development, Mike Hogan did go ahead with the demolition this past weekend. I have no idea if lead and asbestos were present and sent airborne. Nothing was contained and as the building was demolished and piled, workers were spraying water on it with one garden hose. They did not have any hazmat gear on themselves, not even a surgical mask.
City Planner Wayne Marshall stated to the planning board that Mike Hogan was going to retool the application to minimize wetland fill for level of permitting. Today, I saw a man almost in my back yard tagging trees. He told me he was marking invasive plantings and to direct further questions to Mike Hogan. I have taken pictures- in the 150 ft length of my yard going back to the Annex, he has placed ribbons on 3 trees/bushes. That's it. I am questioning what the sudden interest in invasive vegetation is and of course am begging for you not to send me any more water. No one cares that trees on the Annex property abutting my property line are severely eroded, roots exposed and dangling, trees dying, and will fall into my property on top of the the destruction from the water slaughter with DEP approval.
I want this documented and hope for accountability and ethics. Flooding private property in a flood zone, flood plain is deadly. I don't know how you sleep.
Sincerely,
Laurie Allen
17 Seaview Perish
Helfast, Me. 04915
From: laurieallen55@msn.com
To: wmarshall@cityofbelfast.org; mainegroup@prexar.com; laurieallen55@msn.com
CC: ward1councilor@cityofbelfast.org; ward2councilor@cityofbelfast.org; ward3councilor@cityofbelfast.org; ward5councilor@cityofbelfast.org; mayor@cityofbelfast.org; jb@frontstreetshipyard.com; planning@cityofbelfast.org; acurtis@bangordailynews.com; assessor@cityofbelfast.org; treasurer@cityofbelfast.org; slloyd@cityofbelfast.org
Subject: RE: #13 Annex Site 4/22 Concerns
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2015 15:06:26 -0400
Wayne Marshall and Mike Hogan,
Amend #13 from original email below dated 4/17/2015.
13. Please show and provide a mapped path for all storm/runoff/meltoff drainage (including roofs) for the entire 119-125 Annex site (including 2009 and 2011 additions). None of this drainage may drain into or through my property. Advise of specific points that will or may drain into the stream with Seaview Terrace lot # and boundaries on the opposing side. See link for boundary map picture the surveyors for the Annex used from Good Deeds, Belfast. https://picasaweb.google.com/105736045670734847961/Annex?authuser=0&feat=directlink
Add
14. Does the site to be demolished contain any lead paint? If so, what is the procedure for removal?
From: laurieallen55@msn.com
To: wmarshall@cityofbelfast.org; mainegroup@prexar.com; laurieallen55@msn.com
CC: ward1councilor@cityofbelfast.org; ward2councilor@cityofbelfast.org; ward3councilor@cityofbelfast.org; ward5councilor@cityofbelfast.org; mayor@cityofbelfast.org; jb@frontstreetshipyard.com; planning@cityofbelfast.org; acurtis@bangordailynews.com; assessor@cityofbelfast.org; treasurer@cityofbelfast.org
Subject: WCGH Annex Site 4/22 Concerns
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2015 15:52:18 -0400
Wayne Marshall and Mike Hogan,
Concerns with the WCGH Annex Site and supporting documents to illegal slaughter to private property. Do Not Send Me Annex water. See concerns numbered on the site plan included in this album. https://picasaweb.google.com/105736045670734847961/Annex?authuser=0&feat=directlink
#1-4 (my ref on the site plan) are in view from my backyard- 17 Seaview.
A. What is the noise level ordinance (DBA) ?
B. Will noise barriers surround the transformer, generator and possible pump station?
C. Will aesthetic screening buffer my view of #1-4?
#5 Explain this completely. It appears to be a new drainage path that will flow to my private property. This is illegal under title 17:Crimes Chapter 91:nuisances subchapter 3 particular nuisances 2808. Altercation of surface water flow. Unreasonable use of land that results in altered flow of surface water that unreasonably injure's another's land or that unreasonably interferes with the use of another's land is a nuisance.
#6 The power pole is not there any more. See pictures of pole pre Annex extension 2011. Is that being replaced in the same spot or is there a change?
#7. Explain this completely. This area is where an enormous tree is. Illegal title 17 again. See pictures for tree and erosion.
#8. This drain swale was to be filled in and graded per the site plans for the Annex extension in 2011. See pictures of plan and water slaughter. Illegal title 17 again. Fill it in.
#9. This is where Mike Hogan and Planning Board member Diane Beck confirmed site drainage into Midcoast Mental Health stream property. After the site was completed, this site is draining at #8. Wayne Marshall and Mike Hogan responded with rhetoric and a green pipe that I NEVER asked about. See the picture of #8 and erosion to another massive tree root system on private property. Title 17.
In the letter dated 4/10/2015 to abutting property owners, Wayne writes "The project involves the demolition of the former motel building on the site, an expansions of the current parking area, relocation of the existing access driveway from Northport Avenue to the property and SIMILAR CHANGES."
That motel is old and probably has asbestos.
10. Please advise if the motel has asbestos.
11. If so, also advise what the procedure is for demolition to contain the asbestos from.
12. Please advise in writing what all the "SIMILAR CHANGES" are by Tuesday 4/21. One day prior to the site meeting on 4/22/15.
13. What are the details and paths for all drainage, please send me a map with the full paths to the stream and which paths abutt my property.
Sincerely,
Laurie Allen
5/25/2015- Above and below email to Mr. MXXXXX were sent with the resident letter directly below. I have not received a response from Mr. MXXXXX, Mike Hogan or DEP Aho. In the email to Mr. MXXXXX and XXXXXX, I confused the zones of R2 and R1 when I sent the email. I have edited that today to correct.
3.
| From: | LAURIE ALLEN (laurieallen55@msn.com) | |
| Sent: | Sun 5/24/15 10:26 AM |
Belfast City Hall and overwhelming projects with unknown recent ordinance and zoning in effect through the Comprehensive Plan are targeting private properties. I do the best I can to sound the alarms but I am treated like the Ebola virus. Humor helps me. I wanted to share this email and the pictures link. Maybe it will validate the corruption that I have been exposing. I haven't any idea if any residents in this email are connected to City Hall. It doesn't matter. I am transparent and innocent with family ties in Bayside since 1969 and more ties to the corrupt.
I honor Memorial Day by doing all I can to restore democracy. It is dangerous. I have nothing to hide. Belfast City Hall is destroying my last asset. They robbed us of the privacy and safety that my children and I thought we had crawled to 5 long years ago. The teachers at THMS and BAHS have given my son their all and an education and opportunity that he never would have received in NJ Exit 9 :) . I am forever thankful and indebted. Regardless of what Belfast City Hall and the players have done to me, my son will soon be on his way to the college of his choice after graduation next year. Thank you Belfast teachers. The poverty that Belfast City Hall has placed me in will most likely pay his way with endowments and/or FA.
I live on 18k a year and must have flood insurance(4k and 3k in property taxes for City Hall to slaughter Seaview Terrace and deny basic services of property taxes 101. High turnover to the delight of real estate agents keeping mum and selling hells) for a home that I paid in full with the last cash I had. A mortgage would have revealed that I was in a flood zone and I would have ran. I never would have bought it if all the disclosures and property inspections that protect a buyer were not corrupted, supported and sealed right up to the State level. I am not on welfare or assistance. I give my time to stop the corruption. It is exhausting and requires stamina. After my son graduates, I will have more options in activism. Proof of the destruction of the hard working middle class, the broken back bone of what made the USA. My education is street smarts with a life time of bullies.
The only reason I chose www.boycottbelfast.blogspot.com is because the downtown businesses chose to slap me in the face by awarding City Manager Joe Slocum Citizen of the year when I had been begging them to support residents as we support them. I am the most hated woman in downtown Belfast. It pours into my children's lives. The way of bullies trying to silence an honest woman. Shame and intimidate Mom into silence. Use the children. All of their lives to date.
Sincerely,
Laurie Allen
4.
From: laurieallen55@msn.com
To: XXXXX
Subject: FW: Invasive Annex FW: #13 Annex Site 4/22 Concerns
Date: Sat, 23 May 2015 14:33:38 -0400
Dear Mr. MXXXXXXXXXXX and XXXXX,
Mike Hogan is not responding (below). The planning board is hearing a new proposal for the new office building and parking (in XXXXX and my backyard) on Wednesday May 27 @ 6:30. The original plan is in the link below and I'll copy it here too. https://picasaweb.google.com/105736045670734847961/Annex?authuser=0&feat=directlink I understand Mr. MXXXXXX is a Maine Forester as well as an airport abutter with the City taking. I worry that Hogan is proposing that this tiny buffer strip (50?ft) of woodland (I would love to know if it's wetland designated as well) should be cut down because of invasive species. Thus allowing for additional parking and moving the transformer, generator and possible pump station even closer to my boundary. Certainly the tiny strip left will erode into the fake stream of City Hell. Trees roots are already heavily exposed, some are almost down into the stream as well as a massive boulder getting ready to block the width when it falls in.
Are there loopholes for invasive species that Hogan can use to do this? Furthermore, that site is R3- Housing and Healthcare (the old R2 zone). Since City Council voted the final zoning in for the new zone R1 (R2 into R1) and R3 in September or October (Marshall states September, Slocum states October) they refuse to update the City website with the final zoning maps that are legal documents. Lying verbally and in writing is apparently legal. Slocum and Marshall state they have made a mistake every time I have caught them over 5 years. Many times.
They "claim" Seaview Terrace is in the new R1 zone but I don't think so. Otherwise the maps would be updated. I actually think ALL of the old R2 (from Race? St over) has been moved into R3. Legally they can do that. Move the whole zone into the the same zone aka R3. They cannot pick out one area as they proposed to do to Wight St and Seaview Terrace, and put the rest into the new zone of R2 (old R1). I think they did that as a diversion. To keep the rest of the old R2 thinking they were moving into residential only- R1..
City Hall is buying time for as long as they can, for the appeals process to close? Probably has, normally it's what 30? days. Even on site plans and the corrupt construction doesn't start till way after that. Another real time nightmare of mine. I am mentioning the zoning because whatever the hell the zoning and new ordinances are for each zone is crucial. Residential must have ordinance prohibiting industrial equipment and parking lots being built 20 ft from our property lines. But if we are R3- healthcare and housing- we are a parking lot.
If Hogan has something with this evasive species- what about the airport woods and rail trail woods- all is at risk and certainly more than my ignorant mind would know. I'm a simple minded, mentally battered Mom barely able to stop myself from drooling. Deserving of all that rob my life, money, rights and privacy. I don't think so.
I would appreciate any information, any support, anything. ...
Sincerely,
Laurie Allen
#5
Below was sent with all of the above attached.
| rom: | LAURIE ALLEN (laurieallen55@msn.com) |
| Sent: | Tue 5/26/15 12:02 PM |
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The fact that this Belfast Planning Board 5/27/2015 hearing for the "revised" plan of the WCGH Annex WILL NOT BE TELEVISED is corruption. Below was copied from the City Website (posted on Friday's prior to meetings). There is no doubt that Belfast City Hall and WCGH do not want the public to see the corruption that I have been laying my life on the line to expose for 5 years and counting. Regardless of any reason they give, the lies never stop.
First and foremost, update the City website to confirm that Seaview Terrace is zoned as Residential 1 and that the ANNEX must follow ordinances and zoning (setbacks, noise, lighting, placement of heavy equipment, stabilization of abutting eroding bank to 17 Seaview Terrace residential 1 property. I would estimate the current equipment and driveway to be 50 ft from my boundary. See pictures.
What are the set backs, zoning and ordinances for a business site plan abutting 17 Seaview Terrace residential 1 private property in a flood zone A?
Ned Lightner does have back up to tape/broadcast meetings as I have witnessed before. Clearly there is no plan to do so. In fact, Ricki LeSans, Belfast City Hall Treasurer witnessed another attempt by City Hall to not televise an emotional meeting that I would be speaking at after the death of my brother on 9/4/2014. The City sent in the trucks, unannounced, on 9/8/2014 to do an illegal paving job on Seaview Terrace (no notice given)and send me more illegal water. They thought I'd be in Alabama, my brother's funeral was that day. I was home and watched in horror at the assault. All week long. The next City Council meeting was on 9/16/2014. City Manager Joe Slocum knew I would be coming to tell of the City using my brother's death to assault Seaview Terraceand tried to keep that from the public. I am sure the only reason he caved was because Ricki was there, a long time honest and respected City employee. And I had my own camcorder on me the whole time I spoke. Just in case the taped meeting had "issues". Too many prior meetings of emotional facts that I spoke at had "issues" with taping. This has severed my friendship with Ned, someone who has known me and my family since I was a teen. http://boycottbelfast.blogspot.com/p/91614-wolf-pack-city-hall-meeting.html
Five years long of City Hall bullies and players. They are getting ready to hit me again from the back, the assault never ends. They are just getting started and thought they would have silenced me over the 5 years of beat downs. The concerns that I sent in the email below for the first Annex meeting were never read on TV. They were never addressed period. Status Quo. Invasive species, absolutely.
"NOTE to PUBLIC: The public is invited to attend and offer comment at the respective public
hearings at the Regular Meeting of the Planning Board. Also, the Regular Meeting will not be
televised on Bel TV."
This is a valuable lesson for the teachers to share with the students. Real time corruption with one Mom taking them on. I am begging for anyone to step up and help. Is there anyone that will come to the meeting, witness it, tape it and report it?
Sincerely,
Laurie Allen
(This was broadcast yesterday. It is powerful and gives me courage until. I have to save our home and will not lay down. It has gotten so much bigger than saving our home. I am just beginning. Please do not call me in as threat again or send the Police to my home to determine my stability again. I protest and speak in peace and sanity although I may cry)
http://www.democracynow.org/2015/5/25/former_congressman_ron_dellums_organizing_for
But, to me, the most powerful statement, that shaped my life forever, was this comment: "Peace is more than simply the absence of war; it is the presence of justice." I interpreted that to mean, wow, the peace movement is the ultimate movement. Peace is the superior idea, that the umbrella movement for—of all movements, the peace movement, because to come together under the banner of peace forces us to challenge all forms of injustice.
I want you to consider this point. I don’t make it in criticism; I make it simply as a matter that we must reflect upon, because I have come to this moment many times. Suppose everyone—because I believe that the movement to end the war in Vietnam ultimately became the largest and most powerful movement in the country. But when the war in Vietnam ended, many of the people went home and left us to fight racism, poverty, hunger, disease, homelessness, helplessness—went home. And my great lament in my life has been: What would have happened in this country and in this world if people had heard Martin Luther King and said, "Now that we’ve ended the war in Vietnam, let’s get on with dealing with other forms of injustice"? What would the world look like?
***Note by Laurie Allen - City Planner Wayne Marshall is using language "The Planning Board approved the Preliminary Plan for this project at its meeting of April 22, 2015 " This approval has zero merit because it was under DEP review. The DEP came back with new plans must now be proposed under DEP requirements for common scheme of development. This is how Wayne layers corruption of site plans through false approvals and amendments. He locks them in his office, the public cannot view the true documents. MFOIA is useless. I have been trying for 5 years to get valid public documents. The City Attorney stepped in to intimidate me. Telling me they will not respond to me or any of my requests since they are "repetitive" and that I should hire an attorney to speak for me. NOT. Some of his letters can be found on www.belfastbullies3.blogspot.com ASK'M (Aho, Slocum, Kelly, Marshall)
CITY OF BELFAST PLANNING BOARD REGULAR MEETING
WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 2015 at 6:30 P.M.
BELFAST CITY HALL - COUNCIL CHAMBERS
1) Roll Call. Chair, Steve Ryan; Secretary, Roger Pickering; Members Biff Atlas, Russell
Barber, and Wayne Corey; and Associate Members Margot Carpenter and Declan
O’Connor.
2) Review of Meeting Minutes.
3) Development Review & Public Hearing
Liane and Walt Harris, applicant and property owner, request to expand an existing
garage. Property is located at 9 James Street, Map 11, Lot 234A, and it is in the
Residential 1 zoning district. The existing garage is nonconforming as to the amount of
side setback. Applicant request to expand the garage requires Board consideration as a
Type II nonconformity.
3.1 Applicant Presentation
3.2 Public Hearing
3.3 Board Review and Decision
4) Development Review & Public Hearing
Waldo County General Hospital, applicant and property owner, request to demolish an
existing building and to construct a new office building that is about 20,000 square feet in
size on their property located at 119 Northport Avenue, Tax Map 33, Lots 22, 22B (part of)
and 22C. The Planning Board approved the Preliminary Plan for this project at its meeting
of April 22, 2015, and the applicant is now proposing amendments to the Plan approved by
the Board. Project requires a Use Permit issued pursuant to Chapter 102, Zoning, and a
Site Plan Permit issued pursuant to Chapter 90 of City Code of Ordinances.
4.1 Applicant presentation
4.2 Public Hearing
4.3 Board review of application
5) City Planner Report and Other Business
6) Adjournment
NOTE to PUBLIC: The public is invited to attend and offer comment at the respective public
hearings at the Regular Meeting of the Planning Board. Also, the Regular Meeting will not be
televised on Bel TV.
#6
5/26/2015 Right
Wayne. "Simply"- Not. Intentionally hoping no one would pick up on it-
Yes. Wayne side stepped answering the critical zoning of Seaview Terrace
as Residential 1. Lets see if he "simply" responds.
I will note that we sent you a written
letter providing you notice of this hearing and the past public hearing
and site visit, and that we also sent you a letter nearly 2 months in
advance of when the Hospital intended to submit an application to
provide you notice of any upcoming activities. All abutting property
owners have been provided an opportunity to submit comments in writing,
via email and in person at the public hearing.
I will ensure that the Board is provided a copy of your email so that they are aware of your concerns.
Wayne Marshall
#7
Wayne Marshall,
You did not respond. I need to know this to present concerns for the meeting tomorrow.
1. First and foremost, update the City website to confirm that Seaview Terrace is zoned as Residential 1 and that the ANNEX must follow ordinances and zoning (setbacks, noise, lighting, placement of heavy equipment, stabilization of abutting eroding bank to 17 Seaview Terrace residential 1 property. I would estimate the current equipment and driveway to be 50 ft from my boundary. See pictures.
2. What are the set backs, zoning and ordinances for a business site plan abutting 17 Seaview Terrace residential 1 private property in a flood zone A?
Laurie Allen
#8
Date: Tue, 26 May 2015 15:14:13 -0400
Subject: Re: Zoning Not Answered
From: planner@cityofbelfast.org
To: laurieallen55@msn.com
| From: | Wayne Marshall (planner@cityofbelfast.org) This sender is in your contact list. |
| Sent: | Tue 5/26/15 12:29 PM |
| To: | LAURIE ALLEN (laurieallen55@msn.com) |
Dear Ms. Allen
Thank you
for pointing out that the information I posted and typed in on the
agenda was in error. The City always planned to be televising this
meeting and I simply and errantly typed in that it would not be
televised. We are now re-posting the agenda with the corrected
information. #7
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You did not respond. I need to know this to present concerns for the meeting tomorrow.
1. First and foremost, update the City website to confirm that Seaview Terrace is zoned as Residential 1 and that the ANNEX must follow ordinances and zoning (setbacks, noise, lighting, placement of heavy equipment, stabilization of abutting eroding bank to 17 Seaview Terrace residential 1 property. I would estimate the current equipment and driveway to be 50 ft from my boundary. See pictures.
2. What are the set backs, zoning and ordinances for a business site plan abutting 17 Seaview Terrace residential 1 private property in a flood zone A?
Laurie Allen
#8
Date: Tue, 26 May 2015 15:14:13 -0400
Subject: Re: Zoning Not Answered
From: planner@cityofbelfast.org
To: laurieallen55@msn.com
Ms. Allen
I
have repeatedly confirmed to you that your property is in the
Residential 1 zoning district. The Hospital Annex property is in the
Residential 3 zoning district. The Hospital project is subject to the
standards for the Residential 3 zoning district.
#9
Wayne Marshall,
As you and City Manager Joe Slocum state frequently, you make mistakes.
http://www.cityofbelfast.org/DocumentCenter/View/1092 This link states it is the adopted plan and the actual map stated it was the adopted plan reflecting Seaview Terrace into R3 as of yesterday. Today I see the actual map now states "Proposed Land Use Areas." The real estate agents have listed 3 different zones on listings after the zone change. R2, R1 and Healthcare. 3 out of 12 homes. That's unethical and clearly due to your refusal to update the maps with final zoning for R1 and R3. Verbal mistakes are not legally binding. You may be making another mistake hurting my life and property. Advise when you will make the R1 and R3 final zoning on the City website and send me the confirming link with Seaview Terrace as R1 final zoning.
Mike Hogan will not respond as to why he has hired someone to mark invasive species on the small 50 ft buffer between my boundary and Annex driveways and industrial equipment. If he is planning to move the parking and industrial equipment into that small buffer, then that is an ethical problem that has no honor. If he is approved to do that, than my property was never DEP wetlands and DEP approved flooding to my private property. It is not a natural outlet and if this buffer is not wetlands than DEP had no regulation to approve the runoff. My boundary extends another approx 10 ft towards the annex from my fence and approx. 10 ft towards my fence from where the invasive man tied that pink ribbon on the tree in the picture below.
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As you and City Manager Joe Slocum state frequently, you make mistakes.
http://www.cityofbelfast.org/DocumentCenter/View/1092 This link states it is the adopted plan and the actual map stated it was the adopted plan reflecting Seaview Terrace into R3 as of yesterday. Today I see the actual map now states "Proposed Land Use Areas." The real estate agents have listed 3 different zones on listings after the zone change. R2, R1 and Healthcare. 3 out of 12 homes. That's unethical and clearly due to your refusal to update the maps with final zoning for R1 and R3. Verbal mistakes are not legally binding. You may be making another mistake hurting my life and property. Advise when you will make the R1 and R3 final zoning on the City website and send me the confirming link with Seaview Terrace as R1 final zoning.
Mike Hogan will not respond as to why he has hired someone to mark invasive species on the small 50 ft buffer between my boundary and Annex driveways and industrial equipment. If he is planning to move the parking and industrial equipment into that small buffer, then that is an ethical problem that has no honor. If he is approved to do that, than my property was never DEP wetlands and DEP approved flooding to my private property. It is not a natural outlet and if this buffer is not wetlands than DEP had no regulation to approve the runoff. My boundary extends another approx 10 ft towards the annex from my fence and approx. 10 ft towards my fence from where the invasive man tied that pink ribbon on the tree in the picture below.
https://www.planning.org/pas/at60/report133.htm
It is hard to avoid the conclusion that buffer strips have been used on occasion to soften up the opposition — namely, the residential property owners who oppose new industry, a freeway, or a new shopping center. The ethical problem here is one that each planning commission has to solve for itself. But if it is to carry out its function with honor, a planning staff does have the responsibility of presenting the facts and not relying on a pretty label. A buffer strip should be what its name implies and it should achieve what is claimed for it.
I have no idea what Hogan's new plan is. How am I supposed to address concern's? Why didn't you include the new plan as you did with the first plan? Please email it to me now.
#10
From: laurieallen55@msn.com
To: planner@cityofbelfast.org
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Subject: RE: Zoning Not Answered
Date: Tue, 26 May 2015 16:52:54 -0400
I forgot to send the pictures of my once 2'x2' private property drainage ditch at purchase in 6/2010. Spring melt 2011 tore my property away. I had a 10' buffer from the fence to the ditch for mowing. All gone, a ravine with trees falling in.
The opposing side is Annex property and only 10 ft into the pink invasive ribbon. The exposed huge root ball is a massive tree on private property taken in 2011, ready to come down from where Mike Hogan corruptly sent the runoff from the Annex addition in 2011. He confirmed at the site meeting that the run off would exit further down, into MidCoast Mental health ditch property behind 5 Seaview Terrace. NOT 17 SEAVIEW TERRACE!!
To: planner@cityofbelfast.org
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Subject: RE: Zoning Not Answered
Date: Tue, 26 May 2015 16:52:54 -0400
I forgot to send the pictures of my once 2'x2' private property drainage ditch at purchase in 6/2010. Spring melt 2011 tore my property away. I had a 10' buffer from the fence to the ditch for mowing. All gone, a ravine with trees falling in.
The opposing side is Annex property and only 10 ft into the pink invasive ribbon. The exposed huge root ball is a massive tree on private property taken in 2011, ready to come down from where Mike Hogan corruptly sent the runoff from the Annex addition in 2011. He confirmed at the site meeting that the run off would exit further down, into MidCoast Mental health ditch property behind 5 Seaview Terrace. NOT 17 SEAVIEW TERRACE!!
Tape on left on 2011 below picture is Annex Side- approx 10 ft in to pink ribbon.
In Summary:
1. Advise when you will make the R1 and R3 final zoning on the City website and send me the confirming link with Seaview Terrace as R1 final zoning.
2. I have no idea what Hogan's new plan is. How am I supposed to address concern's? Why didn't you include the new plan as you did with the first plan? Please email it to me now.
(RE-POSTED BELOW TO SUPPORT ABOVE TAKING)
This is frightening. It's on a Maine Real Estate Attorney's web site. Belfast IS doing all of these publicly, imagine what they are hiding ... think of all the "projects" for more underway- impossible to stop them unless the downtown is shut down. The downtown brought this on too. All about more for them taking our property and property taxes.
A.
Section 5204 prescribes procedures for municipal takings
under the community development statute. These procedures are similar
to, but not identical with, the procedures prescribed under Title 23 for
local highway takings. Most significantly, community development
takings under sec. 5204 are not subject to the limitations contained in
30-A MRSA sec. 3101 for other non-highway municipal takings.
Specifically, a municipality may use the community development statute
to acquire owner-occupied residential property, even if the owner does
not consent, and use of property taken by the municipality is not
restricted to the specific use for which it was taken.
B.
Inverse condemnation is a term used in the law to describe a situation in which the government takes private property but fails to pay the compensation required by the 5th Amendment of Constitution. In some states the term also includes damaging of property as well as taking it. In order to be compensated, the owner must then sue the government. In such cases the owner is the plaintiff and that is why the action is called inverse – the order of parties is reversed, as compared to the usual procedure in direct condemnation where the government is the plaintiff who sues a defendant-owner to take his or her property.
The taking can be physical (e.g., land seizure, flooding, retention of possession after a lease to the government expires, deprivation of access, removal of ground support) or it can be a regulatory taking (when regulations are so onerous that they make the regulated property unusable by its owner for any reasonable or economically viable purpose). The latter is the most controversial form of inverse condemnation. It is considered to occur when the regulation of the property's use is so severe that it goes "too far," as Justice Holmes put it in Pennsylvania Coal Co. v. Mahon, 260 U.S. 393 (1922), and deprives the owner of the property's value, utility or marketability, denying him or her the benefits of property ownership thus accomplishing a constitutionally forbidden de facto taking without compensation.
B.
Inverse condemnation is a term used in the law to describe a situation in which the government takes private property but fails to pay the compensation required by the 5th Amendment of Constitution. In some states the term also includes damaging of property as well as taking it. In order to be compensated, the owner must then sue the government. In such cases the owner is the plaintiff and that is why the action is called inverse – the order of parties is reversed, as compared to the usual procedure in direct condemnation where the government is the plaintiff who sues a defendant-owner to take his or her property.
The taking can be physical (e.g., land seizure, flooding, retention of possession after a lease to the government expires, deprivation of access, removal of ground support) or it can be a regulatory taking (when regulations are so onerous that they make the regulated property unusable by its owner for any reasonable or economically viable purpose). The latter is the most controversial form of inverse condemnation. It is considered to occur when the regulation of the property's use is so severe that it goes "too far," as Justice Holmes put it in Pennsylvania Coal Co. v. Mahon, 260 U.S. 393 (1922), and deprives the owner of the property's value, utility or marketability, denying him or her the benefits of property ownership thus accomplishing a constitutionally forbidden de facto taking without compensation.
I met a woman on 5/14/2015, who told me Belfast City Hall outright stole
approx. 10 acres of family property by the dam on the east side. No
compensation, just took it. Another woman told me her property is also
being destroyed and flooded by the City. Another woman told me of
similar neighbor chicken problems in-town, crapping all over her
walkway, sticking to her shoes and into her home, same neighbors kids
climbing her fence and allowed to build a deck and get a permit after...
neighbors clearly connected to City Hall. The 99% are getting angry.
Boycott downtown will be the only way to stop the corruption and players
from taking all. Three reporting's of corruption in a hour outing for
errands with strangers chit chatting. Imagine all the rest and the more
to come. Boycott.
Below was copied and sent in an email to Belfast City Council (except Heil Hurley) and Mayor Ash ending at $$$$$$$$$$$$$$
VETERANS DIE- SHAME ON BELFAST CORRUPT
| From: | LAURIE ALLEN (laurieallen55@msn.com) |
| Sent: | Mon 5/25/15 8:21 AM |
| To: | ward1councilor@cityofbelfast.org (ward1councilor@cityofbelfast.org); ward2councilor@cityofbelfast.org (ward2councilor@cityofbelfast.org); ward3councilor@cityofbelfast.org (ward3councilor@cityofbelfast.org); ward5councilor@cityofbelfast.org (ward5councilor@cityofbelfast.org); mayor@cityofbelfast.org (mayor@cityofbelfast.org); LAURIE ALLEN (laurieallen55@msn.com) |
5/25/2015 City Planner Wayne Marshall and City Manager Joe Slocum insist that Seaview Terrace was placed into the new R1 zone but the "adopted" plan on the City website does not reflect that. It was voted in last in September or October (Marshall says October, Slocum says September). Since then I have been demanding that the City website reflect FINAL zoning for R1 and R3. They refuse. Real listings have bogus zoning's in this whole area. The agents play stupid and refer inquiries to Belfast City Hall.
I
cited law for the Comprehensive Plan that a municipality CANNOT pluck
neighborhoods from a zone and place them in a different zone than the
rest of the original zone neighborhoods. We must all move into the same
zone together unless the residents of that neighborhood agree to go into
the different zone. http://boycottbelfast.blogspot.com/p/7814-comp-plan-corruption.html
WE
WERE NEVER ASKED AND CITY HALL WAS JUST DOING IT. PLACING SEAVIEW
TERRACE INTO R3. I BEGAN PROTESTING IMMEDIATELY IN MAY 2014. MY
NEIGHBORS FINALLY TOOK NOTICE. ONE NEIGHBOR TOOK THE REIGNS AND WENT TO
BELFAST CITY MANAGER JOE SLOCUM TO ASK HIM HOW TO STOP THE REZONING.
Like going to the devil and asking him how to get to Heaven. I am
thinking all of the old R2 is R3. Legally they can do that. Why else
would they be refusing to make the zoning maps final? Why are listings
of other old R2 area's not reflecting the new R1? Why do residents bow
down to the bullies of Belfast City Hall? It is insane that we pay them
to rob us of our rights, property and lives. Forcing many to go along to
get along, life's too short. Be Happy, past the corruption onto your
kids, grandchildren... Shame on all the parents that enable the
corruption or are the corrupt.
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