J.V. Properties’ proposed expansion of NAPA Auto Parts, 693 Bath Road, passed Monday night, Wiscasset Planning Board Chair Karl Olson said after the meeting. The meeting at the town office was announced on the agenda as also being via Zoom. The Zoom part did not occur; Olson provided Wiscasset Newspaper a summary via email. 

There was no comment at the public hearing for the NAPA expansion, Olson wrote.

According to Wiscasset Newspaper files, plans called for the building to grow by 40 feet in the back, for storage space.

Knickerbocker Group will request a waiver on a requirement for a recent survey as part of its requested change of use for 518 Gardiner Road, Olson said; the last survey dates to 1998. “The application was otherwise ruled complete.” A site walk was set for 4 p.m. Monday, Oct. 3; a public hearing, for 7 p.m. Oct. 24.

The Boothbay firm’s application states Allen Cohen owns the property proposed to change in use from commercial warehouse space to “a combined commercial warehouse and modular housing fabrication facility (industrial)” and have “minor interior renovation work.” Cohen confirmed by phone earlier Monday and in a Sept. 2 document with Knickerbocker Group’s letterhead, he plans to lease out the space. 

A new well and septic system would be installed and overhead power reworked, the application states.

Also Monday, Olson said Drilling and Blasting Specialists Inc.’s blasting application for lot 9, Young’s Point Road was ruled complete “except for receipt of either a survey plan with the location delineated or a latitude and longitude determined by a cell phone or better equipment. Several area residents were present and allowed to ask the representatives of the blasting company many questions,” Olson continued.

Last month, neighbors asked about shock impact and other concerns. Drilling and Blasting Specialists has been in business 35 years, takes seismographic and other precautions and follows towns’ ordinances, the firm’s owner Tim Purington told Wiscasset Newspaper in an interview last month. 

For lack of a quorum, the ordinance review committee did not meet Monday, Olson said. Neither the ORC nor the planning board will meet Oct. 10, due to the Indigenous Peoples Day holiday.