Town’s Planning Board will have two new members
Town’s Planning Board will have two new members
By Zack Anchors
Staff writer
With one member leaving and two new members joining, the Scarborough Planning Board will soon have some new faces.
Michael Wood, a previous chair of the board who has served three three-year terms, will leave the board at the end of December. At the Nov. 15 Town Council meeting, Cory Fellows and John Chamberlain were unanimously approved as new appointees to the board. Fellows will join the board in January, filling the space left by Wood and will serve a three-year term. Chamberlain was appointed to fill a space left by Mark Porada, who was a first alternate on the board. Chamberlain will serve a one-year term and attended his first meeting last week. Chamberlain is now serving as the second alternate on the board, but when Fellows joins on he will move up to first alternate and Fellows will become second alternate.
“The Planning Board has seven members and five are voting members,” said Scarborough Town Planner Joe Ziepniewski. “If somebody is missing or has a conflict then an alternate takes their place. Usually alternates can attend meetings and join in discussion but they can’t vote.”
Fellows, a portfolio manager at a Portland-based national affordable housing development company, has background in development and municipal planning. He earned a master’s degree in city planning from the Massachusetts Institute for Technology. Fellows and his wife moved to Scarborough two years ago from Massachusetts, attracted here by the higher quality of life they saw available in Maine. Fellows, who has three children, has been following town affairs since moving here and wanted to get involved.
“I just really wanted to contribute and I thought this would be an appropriate way to do that,” said Fellows.
Town Councilor Jeff Messer, chair of the appointments committee, said he has never met Fellows but was impressed with his background.
“He had an outstanding resume,” said Messer. “Certainly he has a strong background in planning.”
Chamberlain comes to the board with a background in development. Along with his brother Elliott, he has been involved in a number of well-known developments throughout Scarborough and the surrounding area. Among the projects he has been involved with is the Dunstan Crossing residential development. Messer said he asked Chamberlain, a longtime friend of his, to join the board.
“John’s a guy who knows a lot about the planning process,” said Messer. “He was on the comprehensive update committee and had an excellent attendance record.”
Wood, who has served on numerous committees for the town, has reached the term limits of the Planning Board. Messer said Wood has been one of the most important members on the board over the last several years.
“He’s been an outstanding member of the committee,” said Messer. “His attendance record has been over 90 percent.”
Messer plans to soon introduce a resolution to the Town Council that would officially honor Wood for his service to the town.
By Zack Anchors
Staff writer
With one member leaving and two new members joining, the Scarborough Planning Board will soon have some new faces.
Michael Wood, a previous chair of the board who has served three three-year terms, will leave the board at the end of December. At the Nov. 15 Town Council meeting, Cory Fellows and John Chamberlain were unanimously approved as new appointees to the board. Fellows will join the board in January, filling the space left by Wood and will serve a three-year term. Chamberlain was appointed to fill a space left by Mark Porada, who was a first alternate on the board. Chamberlain will serve a one-year term and attended his first meeting last week. Chamberlain is now serving as the second alternate on the board, but when Fellows joins on he will move up to first alternate and Fellows will become second alternate.
“The Planning Board has seven members and five are voting members,” said Scarborough Town Planner Joe Ziepniewski. “If somebody is missing or has a conflict then an alternate takes their place. Usually alternates can attend meetings and join in discussion but they can’t vote.”
Fellows, a portfolio manager at a Portland-based national affordable housing development company, has background in development and municipal planning. He earned a master’s degree in city planning from the Massachusetts Institute for Technology. Fellows and his wife moved to Scarborough two years ago from Massachusetts, attracted here by the higher quality of life they saw available in Maine. Fellows, who has three children, has been following town affairs since moving here and wanted to get involved.
“I just really wanted to contribute and I thought this would be an appropriate way to do that,” said Fellows.
Town Councilor Jeff Messer, chair of the appointments committee, said he has never met Fellows but was impressed with his background.
“He had an outstanding resume,” said Messer. “Certainly he has a strong background in planning.”
Chamberlain comes to the board with a background in development. Along with his brother Elliott, he has been involved in a number of well-known developments throughout Scarborough and the surrounding area. Among the projects he has been involved with is the Dunstan Crossing residential development. Messer said he asked Chamberlain, a longtime friend of his, to join the board.
“John’s a guy who knows a lot about the planning process,” said Messer. “He was on the comprehensive update committee and had an excellent attendance record.”
Wood, who has served on numerous committees for the town, has reached the term limits of the Planning Board. Messer said Wood has been one of the most important members on the board over the last several years.
“He’s been an outstanding member of the committee,” said Messer. “His attendance record has been over 90 percent.”
Messer plans to soon introduce a resolution to the Town Council that would officially honor Wood for his service to the town.
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