South Bristol residents will vote on changes to the floodplain management, shellfish conservation and shoreland zoning ordinances at a special town meeting Tues., Dec. 18.
The new floodplain management ordinance would allow the owner of a structure on a pier or wharf in a certain zone to replace the structure if it burns down, falls down, or needs to be replaced for another reason, South Bristol Planning Board Chairman Roderick Craib said last month.
The amendments to the shoreland zoning ordinance include a change in terms to eliminate a discrepancy between it and another town ordinance.
The other change adds language that would allow the Planning Board to waive any “submission requirements,” such as a site plan, when “the information is not reasonably necessary in order to determine compliance” with the ordinance.
The change, in the rare circumstances when a site plan is not needed, would save applicants unnecessary expense, Craib said.
The amendments to the shellfish conservation ordinance would allow anyone to purchase a one-day educational license for $2 and legally harvest up to one peck of clams for personal use.
Individuals could purchase an educational license up to five times per year.
Another change would require South Bristol Shellfish Committee members to attend at least half of the committee’s meetings every year to receive conservation credit and stay on the committee.
A third change would authorize the municipal shellfish warden to revoke the resident commercial shellfish license of anyone who “moves out of town and resides in another community” for more than 90 days.
The meeting will start at 6 p.m. at the South Bristol town office.
