Westbrook Planning Board OKs one-year extension for Cloutier Properties site plan at 619 Bridgestone Road

The Westbrook Planning Board unanimously approved a one-year extension on Tuesday for a site-plan amendment at 619 Bridgestone Road, giving Cloutier Properties more time to receive review comments from the Maine Department of Environmental Protection.

The extension—approved to extend the plan through May 6, 2027—was moved, seconded and passed on a roll-call vote in which Kevin Price, Nancy Littrow Capes, Karen Axelson and John Turcotte voted yes. The application concerns expansion of a material and equipment storage area on Tax Map 018, Lot 029B in the Highway Commercial 1 zone; the plan was originally approved March 16, 2021 and amended September 5, 2023 and May 6, 2025.

Ryan Russell, speaking for Cloutier Properties, told the board the project’s engineers submitted supplemental materials to the DEP on June 11 and the applicant has not yet received the agency’s review. "We are requesting an extension due to the fact that we have...submitted follow-up information to the DEP as of June 11," Russell said, asking the board to allow time for DEP feedback before moving forward.

City staff explained the sequence of approvals and ownership transfer, and noted that because the extension concerns an amendment to a DEP permit there is no statutory deadline for DEP review. Staff said supplemental materials were filed in January and additional correspondence occurred in June, and that the proposed extension would carry forward previously approved findings, inclusions and conditions.

Board members raised no objections to granting a one-year extension under Cloutier Properties’ ownership; the motion stated that all prior conditions associated with the May 6, 2025 approval remain applicable.

The extension means the DEP review outcomes will arrive before the board is required to act again; no additional conditions or modifications were attached by the board at Tuesday’s meeting.