From the Planning Board
There will be a public hearing on Saturday, September 15 at 4 PM in the Community Center concerned with the several ordinances we will present to the Town for approval at the Town Meeting in October.  Dick Norris has edited the Land Use Ordinances and this will appear as an agenda item at the hearing.  In addition, building height, house numbering, elimination of campgrounds as an allowed use, registration of golf cart and several other proposed ordinances will be on the agenda.  We urge all interested parties to attend this very important public hearing
The Comprehensive Plan for the Town of Frye Island has been completed and sent to the State for review.  We expect to hear from the State in mid-November and will consider their comments and will make changes, as we feel appropriate, over the winter months.  A public hearing will be scheduled for June 2002 and the Plan will be presented to the Town for approval at the July 2002 Town Meeting.  The Town owes Fritz Mueller a big vote of thanks.  He managed the development of the Plan, wrote several sections, rewrote sections provided by others to bring them in line State Law, kept the contributors on schedule and has produced a document the Town can be proud of.  The Town also owes a big vote of thanks to Marge Hommel who managed the gathering, correction and production of the maps required in the Plan.  She also applied her computer expertise to generation of drafts of the Plan and the final document now sent to the State.
On the negative side, it must be noted that only four Island residents attended the Comprehensive Plan workshop held in August, and only three residents attended the public hearing on September 8.  We thank them for coming.  As chair of the Planning Board, I feel the fact that only seven residents attended these two sessions to be a public disgrace.  The members of the Comprehensive Plan committee have spent hundreds of hours gathering information and writing the document.  It has been suggested that many residents felt the Plan was in good hands, or that it was a done deed anyhow and therefore it was not important to attend the workshop or hearing.  Certainly, the dedication of the committee deserved more than the interest and thanks of seven people.