BILL PEARSON Fri, 12/18/2020 - 8:45am
It’s not a restaurant. It’s a 10-person eatery with paper, Boothbay Code Enforcement Officer Jason Lorrain said about a change of use request for a new Wiscasset Road business. Lorrain made the statement during the Dec. 16 planning board meeting. Applicants Kimberly Gordon and Paige McLellan are leasing Joan Rittall’s property at 477 Wiscasset Road. The pair requested changing its use from a retail space to a 10-person eatery. Gordon and McLellan will sell wellness products and operate a coffee bar in the eatery.
During the hearing, a planning board member referred to the business as a restaurant. Lorrain corrected him. “It falls under a different classification because of the septic. There are three classifications. The property has tenants upstairs leaving the eatery with 100 gallons of septic per day. So the ordinance allows septic for a 10-person eatery and employees.” Due to limited septic, Gordon said the business w