ROCKPORT — The most contentious article on Rockport’s 2024 Town Meeting warrant – Article 3 — was decided at the polls June 11, and the proposed $33.7 million wastewater treatment facility and Route 90 sewer extension failed.    Article 3 received 428 yes votes and 612 no votes.   Article 15, which was to appoint an advisory committee to study the costs and benefits of a collaborative approach for improving wastewater treatment systems in the towns of Rockport and Camden, passed by a vote of 663 yes to 306.   All the rest of Rockport’s warrant articles, including an overhaul of its land use ordinances to allowing for increased density and reduced lot sizes passed.    Total number of ballots cast for municipal ballots were 1,060.   Voters also elected Michelle Hannan and Denise Munger to the Select Board.    Three candidates — Denise K. Munger, Delores Michelle Hannan and Tiffany Ford — sought two open seats on the Rockport Select Board. Candidate John Viehman ran unopposed for a one-year term.   The following votes were cast:   Denise K. Munger, 576 votes.   Delores Michelle Hannan, 537 votes.   Tiffany Ford, 457 votes.   John Viehman, 779 votes.   Rockport also elected Marcia Dietrich to the SAD 28 School Board and Five Town CSD School Board;  David Bannister and Helen Shaw to the Library Committee; and  Walker Angell, Helen Shaw and Douglas Cole to the Budget Committee.   Steven Bowen received 30 write-in votes to secure a seat on the Budget Committee for a three-year term.  Rockport approved the $17.1 million Five Town CSD budget  by 763 to 258, and the $20.4 million SAD 28 budget by 765 to 252.   Voters also authorized the CSD to build and equip a new 1,800-square-foot special education classroom on the Camden Hills Regional High School campus and expend up to $750,000 from the district’s capital reserve fund for that purpose. Yes 785 No  256   The municipal warrant contained a $11.4 million municipal budget, up 26 percent from the current budget, a number of land use ordinance amendments, as well as Articles 3, to fund and build a new wastewater treatment facility at Pen Bay Medical Center for municipal use.    The following votes were cast on the articles:   Article 3, Spend $33.667 on a new wastewater treatment facility on the Pen Bay Medical Center campus and extend the seer line from the Camden Hills Regional High School to the intersection of routes 90 and 1.   Yes 428   No  612   Article 4, amend the Land Use Ordinance to change a parcel’s zone on Map 20 Lot 182 from part of 903 Coastal Residential and 906 Mixed Business Residential to fully 906 Mixed Business Residential.   That parcel is the former Fuller Chevrolet at the corner of Route 1 and Pascal Ave., and which the Montessori School has purchased to site a new education facility. The change would place the entire lot in the 906 Mixed Business Residential district.   Yes 729   No  266   Article 5, amend the land use ordinance to add Section 817 Planned Unit Development, and with proposed amendments to definitions accompanying Planned Unit Development.  The PUD ordinance is to allow for density bonuses in exchange for types of housing and other amenities.

Yes  693

No  286

Article 6, to create an Affordable Housing Ordinance known as Section 818 Affordable Housing.

Explanation: The Town finds that an adequate supply of affordable housing for persons of moderate income is desirable for public health, safety and welfare in that it promotes a community rich in economic, social, and cultural diversity. It is therefore a public purpose to make available and integrate into the Town an adequate supply of housing for people of all economic segments of the community.

Yes  714

No  259

Article 7, amend the land use ordinance with proposed with Cluster Development definitions.

Yes  651

No  286

Article 8, to amend the land use table with changes to definitions.

Yes  648

No  260

Article 9, amend the land use ordinance concerning lot size for developments and remove special district standards.

Yes  646

No  258

Article 10, amend definitions and reduce required lot sizes for various developments.

Yes  650

No  261

Article 11, amendments to the land use ordinance regarding section 816.

Yes  648

No  259

Article 12, accept the 2024-2025 $11.4 million municipal budget, up 26 percent from the current budget.

Yes  725

No  270

Article 13, Accept revenues of $3.9 million to help reduce the taxpayer load.

Yes  828

No  175

Article 14, accept privately built roads to be maintained by the town: “The dedication in fee simple of all of Business Circle, Rolling Meadow East, and Rolling Meadow West comprising approximately 1,600 feet of private right-of-ways located off of West Street Extension, as shown on the subdivision plan recorded in the Knox County Registry of Deeds at Cabinet 25, Sheet 131, as amended, and to accept and establish such ways as municipal roads to be Town-owned and maintained?”

Yes  701

No  241

Article 15, appoint an advisory committee to study the costs and benefits of a collaborative approach for improving wastewater treatment systems in the towns of Rockport and Camden, including a municipal utility district, and to have such committee report findings to the Board prior to the 2025 Rockport Town Meeting and prior to funding the construction of a new wastewater treatment plant?

Yes  663

No  306

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