$21.5 million school plans submittted for site plan review

Rockland Planning Board considers new technology school plans Feb. 21

Mon, 02/20/2017 - 7:45pm
The exterior renderings of the new Midcoast School of Technology building to be constructed on land adjacent to Snow Marine Park in Rockland.

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1 main street
rcokland, ME
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    On Feb. 21, at 5:15 p.m., Rockland’s planning board will begin reviewing engineer drawings of the new 90,000-square-foot Mid-Coast School of Technology building, proposed for construction on the existing school’s 6.7-acre site at 1 Main Street in Rockland.

    The meeting will take place in Rockland City Hall Council Chambers.

    The site plan has been produced by Rockport engineers Gartley and Dorksy, and submitted by the Region 8 Cooperative Board for Vocational Education, which comprises member Midcoast towns that send high school students to the Rockland school for career and technical education. 

    Architects for the project are with Lavallee Brensinger Architects, a firm that has offices in Boston, Manchester, N.H., and Portland.

     The agenda also includes the review an application and site plan submitted by Rock Coast Lake House, LLC for short-term rental of a single-family dwelling whole-house rental at 155 Lake View Drive (Tax Map 87-A-15).

    The $21.5 million school project, if approved, is anticipated to be under construction in August and be ready for occupation in September 2019.

    Region 8 is part of a quasi-municipal corporate structure established by the Maine Legislature in 1973 to provide consistent public career and technical education to high school students.

    In the Midcoast, six area high schools send students to, or participate with, the Rockland Region 8 campus for CTE.Those students come from Islesboro; Oceanside, in Rockland; North Haven; Vinalhaven; Medomak, in Waldoboro; and Camden Hills Regional High School in Rockport.  

    In November 2016, the following towns approved building the new school, with the following bond proposal:

    Shall Midcoast School of Technology issue bonds or notes for a $25 million building project Yes No
    Appleton  491  345
    Camden 2,586 672
    Cushing  561 297
    Friendship  416  325
    Hope  743  276
    Islesboro  342  84
    Lincolnville  1,114  415

    Matinicus Plantation

    		 35  14
    Monhegan Island Plantation 49  2
    North Haven  703  86

    Owls Head

    		  705  305
    Rockland  2770 1,070 
    Rockport  1,611 685 

    St. George

    		  1,290  373

    South Thomaston

    		  632  260

    Thomaston

    		  1,015  421

    Union

    		  848  500

    Waldoboro

    		  1,680  1,064
    Warren  1,375 735 
    Washington  552  374
    Vinalhaven  568  193
    TOTAL 17,500 7,824

     

    The Region 8 Midcoast School of Technology board consists of representatives of Islesboro, Monhegan, North Haven, Vinalhaven, RSUs 13, 40 and 65 (Matinicus), and the Five Town CSD.

     

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