Plans for a long-disputed campground were shut down by the Tremont (Maine) Board of Appeals on Aug. 9, according to the Mount Desert Islander.
The Planning Board originally denied Pointy Head Campground’s application in January. That decision was appealed, and the Board of Appeals sent the issue back to the Planning Board in February.
On May 23, the Planning Board made the decision to deny the application once again due to nonconforming access to the proposed development. The second appeal made on Aug. 9 resulted in a unanimous vote by the Board of Appeals that upheld the Planning Board’s judgment to deny the application.
The appeal, filed by Attorney Edmond J. Bearor on behalf of his client Madelon Brogdon, read, “The planning board erred when it determined that the use of the access road or driveway for ingress and egress to the proposed development project did not meet Section 7e of the Land Use Ordinance because it would be an expansion of a nonconforming use.”
The Board of Appeals heard arguments from Bearor and Daniel Pileggi, attorney for a group of abutters who opposed the project.
