The Rivers End Cafe owner withdrew a building permit application Dec. 20 to remove his building on 409 Wiscasset Road and replace it with a new one.  Jean Dubois was considering replacing the “Old Basket Barn Building” with a steel structure. Dubois planned on leasing the new structure to William Livingstone who planned on operating an auto repair shop.

Dubois withdrew the application after the Boothbay planning board advised him an auto repair center is prohibited in the C-1 District. Dubois and Livingstone may seek Code Enforcement Officer Jason Lorrain’s assistance in submitting an alternate plan which may be permissible under a home occupancy use.

In other action, the board approved two permit requests. The board unanimously granted a request to renovate a Shore Road bunk house. Applicants Mari McGuire, Mary Jane O’Connor, James Pruett and Margaret Arbour requested removing the bunk house’s roof and rear wall.

The renovation includes adding a four-foot addition to the building’s rear and installing new rafters and a new roof, moving the bunk house door from the center to the right, and installing a rear egress window.

The second application requested constructing a float at 33 Hiawatha Trail in East Boothbay. The board unanimously approved Laurie Zimmerli’s and Ann Prost’s request to construct a pressure-treated wooden 4-by-8-foot access platform, with 4-by-20-foot access stairs, 6-by-16-foot pier, 3-by-36-foot aluminum ramp, 10-by-20-foot pressure-treated wooden float, and a flip up storage frame.

The Shore Road and East Hiawatha Trail properties are both in special residential and shoreland zones.

The board will meet next at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 17 in the municipal building’s conference room.