A problem with the town’s website has delayed a summer resident’s request for an accessory building permit. The Edgecomb Planning Board requested that William and Carolyn Anthony of Chicago, Illinois, resubmit their application at the next meeting.

Tor Glendinning, the president of 44 Degrees North, a Damariscotta architecture firm, provided the planning board with an application on the Anthony’s behalf during the Sept. 3 board meeting. He used the form provided on the municipal website. The application lacked all the required information because he was only able to download one page.

“We need to study the whole application, and it seems the second page is missing,” said Planning Board Chairman Jack French. “I’m sorry that we are having problems with our website. It’s closed now, but even when it was running, there were problems.”

The Anthonys want to build a 400-square foot cottage. The couple already has a summer residence on the Merry Island Road property. The Anthonys own a 1,056-square-foot house on the 2.3 acre parcel. Glendinning assured the planning board that the proposal adhered to shoreland zoning and resource protection requirements.

William Anthony is Northwestern University’s director of Study Abroad Office in Evanston, Illinois. He plans on retiring next year. The cottage would serve as a studio for his painting and writing.

Glendinning plans on submitting a completed application for the board’s review in two weeks.

In other action, the planning board requested further information from a local developer to comply with a Department of Environmental Protection ruling. The planning board requested Salt Point Subdivision’s owners provide paperwork showing it has complied with the Site Location of Development Act and documentation showing the subdivision access road meets slope requirements.

The DEP sent an Aug. 12 letter to the Salt Point Subdivision’s attorney informing him a recent property sale had  trigger the law. The DEP ruled property owned by the subdivision and individual members of the Rioux family is now greater than 14 plots.

In February, the planning board agreed to clarifications in the subdivision’s 2010 application to comply with the Act. But the DEP ruled last month the subdivision has 17 plots, and requires the owner to sell three to comply with the Act.

“There seems to be some confusion here,” French said. “The DEP is counting three open space parcels as lots. I’ve never heard of open space lots being counted as subdivision lots. But we don’t gain anything fighting with the DEP.”

The planning board sent a letter to Salt Point Subdivision’s attorney Peter Drum of Damariscotta requesting a meeting to determine the owner’s progress in complying with the DEP ruling.

The planning board will meet next at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 17 in the municipal building.