It didn’t take long for the Boothbay planning board to approve two applications April 17. The board voted 4-0 twice in a 26-minute span approving a Sawyer’s Island home renovation and a pier modification for an Albion Point Road residence. 

Summer residents Jon and Mariann Bigelow of Wilton, Connecticut received approval to renovate their home at 24 Chandler Road. The couple was represented by Becker Construction’s Deborah Wilson. The property is in a special residential and shoreland zone. Wilson described the project  occurring in two different facets. They will enclose their back porch and create a mud room. On the second floor, they will reduce the number of bedrooms. A small bedroom will be converted into a master bathroom. The remaining three bedrooms will be served by a smaller bathroom when a new shower is added. A closet will also be added to the master bathroom.

The other approval was for a pressure-treated wood 6 foot by 90 foot pier with granite cribs, a 3 foot x 50 foot aluminum ramp and a 14 foot by 40 foot pressure-treated wood float. The pier is for property owned by the Maria G. Canning Revocable Trust at 41 Albion Point Road. The board’s only question regarded whether or not the property taxes were paid. Member Bruce Bowler asked Joe LeBlanc, who represented the trust, why the tax bill, and not the receipt was submitted.  

“I thought that was something you guys would check,” LeBlanc said. The application was approved pending proof of property tax payment. On April 18, Code Enforcement Officer Jason Lorrain confirmed the trust’s property taxes were paid. 

The board meets next at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 15 in the municipal building’s conference room.