The Saco Planning Board met on December 16, 2025, at 7:00 PM (approximate start) to consider several agenda items, including subdivision completeness reviews, a site plan amendment for the Ecology School, and continued public hearings. The meeting lasted over three hours, with extensive public comment and board deliberation. Key decisions included approving minutes, finding applications complete for Eloise's Place and the Ecology School, and continuing several items to future dates.
I'm Joyce Larry Clark. I'm the uh vice chair of the Socco Planning Board. Our chair Matt Prevenzel is uh absent tonight. Um, so I'll be running the meeting in his absence. Um, introducing the members who are here, uh, to my right, Jim Muller, to my left, Jeff Roshu and Catherine Paellini, and our city planner Charles Tettelman is holding down the Ford over there by himself. Um as you know, uh, this is a public meeting, public hearing. It's being filmed, it's being recorded. Uh there are uh hearing guidelines at the front of the room if anybody uh needs a refresher on uh how these meetings run. Uh if there's a public hearing in a matter, uh people are invited to come up to the podium, um, speak clearly into the microphone, identifying yourself and your address, along with your uh relationship to the project, if you're in a butter or if you're a another interested party. Um, people initially have a five-minute limit for speaking. If there's time after everybody's had an opportunity to speak, um, people can come back up to the podium for an additional three minutes for new material. Um, uh, our first order of business is approval of minutes. We have a number of draft minutes to review. Um, Madam Chair, I'll um I've reviewed all the minutes, and unless some other board member finds uh an error, a change to make. Um, I move to uh approve all four uh draft minutes. That'd be for the uh December twelfth uh Jenkins Road sitewalk, the three twenty-one Lincoln Street sidewalk, the December twelfth for uh forty two Ferry Road sidewalk, and the uh December ninth planning board minutes. Thanks for the motion, Jim. Jeff. Thank you, Madam Chair. I did want to note, I think we need to make an edit for the December ninth um meeting. Um I think it's important that we kind of change the heading that it was scheduled for December second, but we should make a notation that due to a storm cancellation, the meeting was held on December ninth. I think just by putting that additional edit at the top, it'll make it a little more accurate. Well, Madam Chair, I'll I'll amend my motion to include that change. With that, I wouldn't second that motion. So we have a motion to approve these four sets of minutes with the one change regarding the date of the December 9th meeting. Um discussion. Catherine. I just have a question because I was here only for one of those minutes. Do we need to separate them because I have to abstain from the other ones? I think you have to speak into the mic a little more. Do we need to separate them? Because I'm going to abstain from the minutes for the sitewalks because I wasn't here. I think that would make sense. Can we go through them one by one? You mind amending your motion, Jim? Um well I'll uh I'll withdraw my motion and then we can do one at a time. So I'll withdraw my second. So December 9th meeting minutes. I guess we'd start at the top. I'll move to approve those with the uh correction of the date as Jeff pointed out. I will second that. Thanks for the motion, Jim, and the second. Jeff, any discussion? All those in favor? Jim? Yes. Jeff? Yes. Catherine, abstain. So I'll vote yes.