Discussion over the proposed Wood Lane brewery project continued at the Aug. 13 Wiscasset Planning Board meeting, even though the issue was not on the agenda.

Christopher Juntera and his partners in a possible hops farm-brewery on Wood Lane appeared before the board, after the board issued an emergency stop-work order halting the project last month. The final approval is being held up because the building where the brewery will be sited still has tenants living in it, which is more complicated than first proposed, according to board members Karl Olson and Al Cohen. In addition, the partners allegedly altered the copyrighted survey they had provided to the board. When the board discovered that, it issued an emergency stop-work order. “That’s against the law,” Olson said.

“We’re not trying to pull the wool over your eyes,” Juntera said.

“But initially, you did,” Olson replied. “We’ll want the Department of Environmental Protection to sign off on everything that’s happening down there, and until there are no people living on the site, it can’t be a commercial site.”

Cohen said there can’t be multiple uses for the property unless more land can be subdivided for multiple uses.

According to Olson, at least four tenants live there, in an apartment building and a trailer.

The developers said they originally had approval from town officials for the plan. “Well, we don’t have a planner now, or even a code enforcement officer,” Olson said. “You might want to talk to (Town Manager) Marian Anderson.”

For the developer to restart the project, the tenants will have to be gone and the developer will have to ask to modify the subdivision plan, and apply for a site plan review, Olson said. He said the board would also need a clean copy of a survey map.

Also Monday, the board approved a waiver for a one-foot change to a subdivision proposal and approved the subdivision change itself at Clark’s Point Development, LLC. Olson recused himself, as he is a consultant. The rest of the members present voted unanimously.

The minor change involved the frontage on one of the lots on Ice Pond Lane. The difference between the survey and the property was less than a foot; the waiver passed easily.

Earlier, a proposed subdivision at Cushman Point Road, owned by Joseph Gagnon, was tabled because the form Gagnon used was the wrong one, and because a copy of the deed was required. Olson urged Gagnon to read the subdivision ordinance and request in writing any waiver he thought he might need. A copy of a document Gagnon provided showed the property could be subdivided. That had been a prior stumbling block.

Olson had also rewritten a planning board application, which had grown from six pages to 11 pages after the town lost its planner. The new one is two pages and a cover sheet.