The Resource Protection District includes areas in which development
would adversely affect water quality, productive habitat, biological
ecosystems, or scenic and natural values. This district shall include
the following areas when they occur within the limits of the shoreland
zone, exclusive of the Stream Protection District, except that areas
which are currently developed and areas which meet the criteria for
the General Development I District need not be included within the
Resource Protection District:
A.
Floodplains along rivers and floodplains along artificially formed
great ponds along rivers, defined by the 100-year floodplain as designated
on the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) Flood Insurance
Rate Maps or Flood Hazard Boundary Maps or the flood of record or,
in the absence of these, by soil types identified as recent floodplain
soils. This district shall also include 100-year floodplains adjacent
to tidal waters as shown on FEMA's Flood Insurance Rate Maps or Flood
Hazard Boundary Maps.
B.
Areas of two or more contiguous acres with sustained slopes of 20%
or greater.
C.
Areas of two or more contiguous acres supporting wetland vegetation
and hydric soils, which are not part of a freshwater or coastal wetland
as defined, and which are not surficially connected to a water body
during the period of normal high water.
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NOTE: These areas usually consist of forested wetlands abutting
water bodies and nonforested wetlands.
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D.
Land areas along rivers subject to severe bank erosion, undercutting,
or riverbed movement, and lands adjacent to tidal waters which are
subject to severe erosion or mass movement, such as steep coastal
bluffs.
E.
Areas
within 250 feet, horizontal distance, of the upland edge of freshwater
and/or coastal wetlands, which are rated "moderate" or "high" value
waterfowl and wading bird habitat, including nesting and feeding areas,
by the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife (MDIF&W).
These areas are generally depicted on a Geographic Information System
(GIS) data layer.
The Limited Residential District includes those areas suitable
for residential and recreational development. It includes areas other
than those in the Resource Protection District or Stream Protection
District and areas which are used less intensively than those in the
General Development District.
The General Development District includes the following types
of existing, intensively developed areas:
A.
Areas of two or more contiguous acres devoted to commercial, industrial,
or intensive recreational activities, or a mix of such activities,
including but not limited to the following:
(1)
Areas devoted to manufacturing, fabricating, or other industrial
activities;
(2)
Areas devoted to wholesaling, warehousing, retail trade and service
activities, or other commercial activities; and
(3)
Areas devoted to intensive recreational development and activities,
such as, but not limited to, amusement parks, racetracks, and fairgrounds.
B.
Areas otherwise discernible as having patterns of intensive commercial,
industrial, or recreational uses.
The Stream Protection District includes all land areas within
75 feet, horizontal distance, of the normal high-water line of a stream,
exclusive of those areas within 250 feet, horizontal distance, of
the normal high-water line of a great pond or river or within 250
feet, horizontal distance, of the upland edge of a freshwater or coastal
wetland. Where a stream and its associated shoreland area are located
within 250 feet, horizontal distance, of the above water bodies or
wetlands, that land area shall be regulated under the terms of the
shoreland district associated with that water body or wetland.
