The board on Tuesday also reviewed plans for a 37-unit, low-income apartment building on King Street and an 89-room hotel at the corner of Armory and Industrial roads.
People told the City Council on Tuesday that it was fiscally irresponsible to move forward on leasing, and possibly purchasing, a building on Front Street that would hold council meetings and serve other functions.
The Planning Board on Tuesday was divided on whether to recommend the City Council rezone the former rectory of Sacred Heart Church from residential to a contract zone to allow for business offices in the building.
City councilors on Tuesday voted 4-3 to rezone 8 Highwood St. so the Mid-Maine Homeless Shelter could develop apartments for seniors and disabled people with families, and some emergency housing for homeless people, but the vote fell short of the needed supermajority.