Community Development Committee paper

Orono- The Community Development Committee Meeting held on Wednesday April 21 began with discussion of the Deep Cove, LLC Draft Option Agreement which is scheduled to become obsolete on June 30. A third generation action agreement is in discussion, and is almost completed. The committee is hoping to have this agreement completed by June 30 in time with the closing of the Options Agreement.

David Lloyd an architect known around the state headed the discussion with the panel for the design for the new condos. He feels the condos could be more efficiently made by tearing down the old mill, and constructing a new condominium in its place. The mill was not designed to be a condominium, and many of the structural features would not be well of efficiently adaptable for the new specifications. First the plumbing and wiring would not be stacked. In apartment buildings bathrooms and sinks are place in line so as to use fewer materials, and to make maintenance and installation easier. This would not be the case with the mill as it is designed to independent specifications for each room. The old mill design would not allow for double loaded corridors, think hotel. This greatly reduces the efficiency of building in terms of available space for rooms. The mill was also not designed with the landscape in mind. With the current structure the condos would receive a great view of the parking lot instead of the river.

The new design would have two styles of condos one being a more inexpensive option. The difference in the apartments is based on living space and the views. The more expensive condos feature 1500 square feet while the cheaper units offer 900. The more expensive units also feature two sides with views as they are located on the corners of the complex while the efficiencies are located in the middle offering only one side with a view. Both style condos will feature a porch and two bedrooms. The complex is designed to offer twenty-four suites. Sixteen of which will be the more costly units while eight are planned to be of the efficiency style.

Constructing these condominiums will help to clean up a hazardous brown field, and bring money into Orono in the long run. The initial construction of the complex will be costly however the money will be made back.

April 20-2010
Orono, Maine- Taylor Lewis brings the University of Maine baseball team to a 7-2 win over Bates at the Mahaney, Diamond Orono Maine with the first score of the game the triple base hits and a triple R.B.I. in the sixth inning. The game began at 5 p.m. Tuesday with a run time of two hours and thirty minutes. The game brings the University of Maine to a 20-16 win lose record for the season.
The game started out slow with no hits in the first inning for either team, Bates came in extremely sluggish with its first three players striking out. The game remained at this pointless standstill until the third inning where Joe Mercurio was run in by Taylor Lewis’s triple to left center.
Bates retaliated with a single run of their own in the beginning of the fourth inning; Gordy Webb ran Chris Burke home with a single to right field.
The stalemate continued between the teams with no runs again until the fifth inning where Umaine advances with a single run again by Joe Mercurio hit in by Taylor Lewis with a triple.
UMaine breaks away with a crushing 5 runs in the beginning of the sixth inning. Matt Howard started the push after being walked to base and stealing home on a wild pitch. Michael Fransoso ran Mykie Lugbauer in with a single. Taylor Lewis sets the match with another triple bringing in the loaded bases.
The game went out the same way it came in slow and relatively pointless. Bates struggles in the eighth inning and manages to get a score, Pat Murphy , after a string of walked players.
All in all this game came down to the one inning for the University of Maine Bears, the sixth where they managed to get 5 runs. Taylor Lewis , a Sophomore and labeled Maine Scholar Athlete “ Rising Star”, dominated the field with his three triples and 4 RBI’s. He is truly living up to the expectations put on him.


For More Information

Umaine Baseball web page:
http://goblackbears.cstv.com/sports/m-basebl/main-m-basebl-body.html

Natural Resource Council of Maine

News releases; multimedia, including maps; testimonies

http://www.nrcm.org/maine_wind_projects.asp

US Department of Energy

Additional websites multimedia and news releases

http://www.windpoweringamerica.gov/astate_template.asp?stateab=me

Oddles of government information

http://www.maine.gov/doc/mfs/windpower/

List of Maine’s finest lakes, and the requirements to be a finest lake. Will windmills take lakes off of this list?

http://www.maine.gov/doc/mfs/windpower/pubs/pdf/Maine%27s%20Finest%20Lakes.pd

Maine Pushing for Wind-power Plan

http://www.seacoastonline.com/articles/20090908-NEWS-909080384

Wikipedia it’s reviewed and has nice links

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_power_in_Maine

Industrial Wind Action Group

They have a few interesting articles

http://www.windaction.org/documents/10319

Union of Concerned Scienctists

basic background stuffs

http://www.ucsusa.org/clean_energy/

Redington Wind Farm Application for Development Document

http://www.maine.gov/doc/lurc/projects/redington/Click_to_Start.htm

Govenor’s Task Force on Wind Power

Tons of handouts tons

http://www.maine.gov/doc/mfs/windpower/summaries.shtml

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