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MaiiieLocal 2 Morning Sentinel 'Monday January 30 1989 1 Winslow to review procedures for house permits aced with a housing boom in which some 750 units already are planned the Winslow Town Council on Monday will consider a proposal for the town to begin granting building permits prior to final com pletion of subdivision roads In turn the Town Council also plans to consider requiring up front monetary assurance that wouldguarantee a road will be completed within a year from when the first building permit was issued Such proof town officials said would come in the form of a performance bond from an insurance com pany or cash presented to the town by the subdivi sion developer The first reading of the amendment will be at a only to'have multi ton concrete and lumber trucks make hundreds of passes over it during home con struction Dixon provided Winslow the money to lay the sec ond coat of asphalt a good number of houses have been' built Maybe next Dixon said he in early December presented Town Manager Edward A Gagnon with the deed for theroad and a $15000 check to cover the cost of laying the final 1 ti inch coat of asphalt Since then Gagnon has held the deed and check until the Town' Council rules" on amending ordinance Should the Town Council approve the proposal to grant buijding permits on unfinished roads the amendment still mandates that the street would not be accepted as a town way until it is fully completed and satisfies all minimum street standards special council meeting scheduled for 7:30 pm at uro niiBiuw rntjoiauon The Winslow Zoning Ordinance currently man dates that to be accepted as a towmjvay and thus entitled municipal services siO a maintenance and snow removal a road must have at least four inches of asphalt topping Until a road is accepted as a town way building permits cannot be issued The proposed ordinance changes include allowing building permits to be granted after rather than road completion completion according to the pro posed amendment would allow contractors to build homes on roads with less than four inches of black top The delay in applying a final coat of asphalt also would permit roadways to settle and also prevent roads from becoming damaged during home construction A recent appeal by a local builder developing a 12 unit subdivision in Winslow drew attention to possible ordinance shortcomings Douglas Dixon of Benton more than two years ago bought a 12 acre wooded field across Benton Ave nue and just south of Super Drug distribution center Since buving the land Douglas has built one home and laid 22 inches of asphalt on his l000 by 60 foot road enough of a road surface to accommodate" building supply trucks and equipment The road however did not meet existing stan dards Working with Public Works Supervisor Ernest Baker Dixon said they proposed a alternative to the requiring a finished road By ANTHONY CRISTAN Sentinel Staff property Sentinel photo by David Learning 43 mils jumps in value ers did a good job to keep the house which was only a few feet away from catching fire He said it was a the house burn down With any wind the house would have gone the chief said About 12000 gallons was used in fighting the fire he said One of the pumps froze McCarron said forc ing firefighters to use a portable pump did a good Carol Kenniston said of the efforts spread We were very fortunate we loose our have saved the Carol Kenniston said even get in to get our horses out nothing they could have figure that lost about $20000 in Carol Kenniston said were all registered (The fire also destroyed) all my equipment He lost all his tools our saws 1 have been calling from all over the she said brought hay and brought grain One lady (a strang er) called and offered me the use of seven of her horses (free of charge) to keep our riding school' Neighbors have come offering hay for the remaining horses and food and money for the family she UU1U XL Ltdl UlUCdL AUGUSTA In the eyes Kennebec County property is now worth almost $3 billion a half billion dollar jump from last $25 billion county valuation according to Maine Bu reau of Taxation officials The 16 percent increase will likely be re fleeted in rising property taxes across the county 4 Soaring real estate values are reported throughout Central Maine state officials confirm Not included in their figures are tax exempt property sucl? as schools churches and the state govern ment buildings State valuations are plugged into bewildering formulas to deter mine how much subsidy a munici pality receives for education revenue sharing and highway block grants explained George Mayo director of the property tax division By comparison York assessment increased the most at 36 percent while Aroostook Cnnn rose the least by 8 percent The figures were released this week by the property tax division In Kennebec County Mount valuation topped the list with an increase in assessment of more than 32 percent Last year town property was valued at $347 million This year the state says Mount Vernon is worth $46 million Property taxes are based on the own assessment of its prop erty but if that valuation falls be low 70 percent of current market value the state will require a local revaluation officials said worth increased by 16 percent to more than $644 mil lion by 19 percent to nearly $137 million and Win by 18 percent to $1584 mil lion There is a numnsA behind ail the changes authorities say trying to make it so that each town is on a level playing field when it comes to distributing state said property tax of ficial Robert Doiron Assessments of the worth are intended to ensure that less wealthy communities receive the financial help they need he said a basic rule of thumb that the farther south you get or the closer to the coast you get higher the erniner tn hn because of happening to property values in those areas The hottest thing is waterfront he said In the last two or three years state valuation has jumped consid erably You can tie it into mort gage interest rates coming down and property values going he said County taxes for each munici pality are based on the state valu WT lr a vnuureu in ieeu investment Mrare giesforthe Educationally Disadvan from their earliest years to their teens vagcu iiie iui iun win locus on issues under discussion in the Marne Aspi rations Compact and other state and lo cal initiatives According to the forum chairman vice president for Maine Thom as McBrierty be discussing investment strategies such as early pre vention policies for at risk children and families restructuring the schools to in crease their effectiveness and reducing the dropout rate through retention and reentry programs forum will spotlight the need for special efforts that go beyond the confines of traditional education to ad Out ol State Mail: $1100 per month Servlcomenwomen: $700 per montn The Sentinel will not be reeponslble tot the return of unsolicited eswraaewiltv VI lUtUy 1 pil Member of the Associated press 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Watarvllla avanr armington office 778 4565 DETROIT Eleven horses in cluding one that was only minutes old died in an early morning barn fire Saturday that the owners be lieve may have been intentionally set riends family and even strangers came to the aid of Wil liam and Carol Kenniston weekend as the family sorted through the rubble left by the fire that destroyed the animals a $45 000 bam a bulldozer and tools that William Kenniston used in his busi ness When Detroit firefighters ar Tived at the the barn which was 30 feet wide 60 feet long and 32 foot high was already engulfed in flames according to Detroit ire Chief Patrick McCar ron The family said the fire was reported at about 4:45 am Plym firefighters also fought the fire A foster son Wayne Hewes heard voices near the barn from his bedroom window early Satur day morning and later woke up when he heard The bam was engulfed before the fami ly could get the horses out Carol Kenniston said the time we saw it (the fire) until the time it (the bam) was flat was no more than 15 min she said believe it (the fire) was Carol Kenniston said adding that the Maine State ire Marshal would be investigating the fire Burn patterns on the floor of the bam that show where the hot spots were will be shown to the investi gator she said McCarron declined to comment on the cause of the fire pending the investigation of the State ire office Carol Kenniston said she raises and trains horses and operates a riding stable where lessons are given Three of the mares were 1 pregnant another had a two month old filly and a fourth had given birth sometime after 3 am when the horses had been last checked she said Kim Gosselin one of Carol Ken partners also lost three horses in the fire One of the horses that died in the blaze was twice the Pleasure in Maine Carol Kenniston said our horses survived the fire but three were so badly burned they had to oe aestroyea Kenniston said She said the family was switching in surance policies and the barn ani mals and equipment may not be insured 4 year old son Wil liam III lost his new John Deere tractor pedal toy in the blaze a fa vorite he usually kept tn his bed room his mother said One of the horses that had to be destroyed af ter the fire also belonged to the boy Carol Kenniston said that any one interested in helping could telephone the family at 487 3301 was a very fast Me Carron said went straight In top photo Becky Cookson exercises a horse Sunday near the McCarron said the 30 firefight remains of the barn at the Horses Us Ridina Stable in a tractor ation figures officials said Colby forum to target educational needs of children Leading representatives of govern ment business social services and edu cation in Maine will gather at Colby College Wednesday to examine future directions for the efforts to im prove the education of its children The statewide policy forum entitled Children in is spon sored by the NYNEX oundation New England Telephone and the national Committee for Economic Development (CED) Among the participants is Guv John McKernan Jr who will make public the report of the Maine Aspirations Compact at a press briefing at 11:15 am Based on landmark report Iff ft oui: I i.