JOSEPH CHARPENTIER
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Boothbay Harbor business owner Tom Myette and neighbor Chandler Wright are appealing a code enforcement decision on abutter Dennis Hilton and his business Harbor Crossing at 14 Todd Ave. Myette and Wright have filed a complaint in Lincoln County Superior Court. On Nov. 19, the town board of appeals denied Myette’s and Wright’s Oct. 22 appeal over Code Enforcement Officer Geoff Smith’s decision to lift a stop work order on Hilton’s construction.
Myette’s and Wright’s attorney Kristin Collins of PretiFlaherty filed the complaint Dec. 9 calling for the court to decide if the stop work order’s lifting was, as the complaint contends, a “de facto new building permit” which would send the project back to the planning board for site plan review.