ROCKLAND, Maine — The planning board is expected to review next month a plan by a downtown hotel to create a 25-space parking lot off-site.
ADZ Properties, which owns 250 Main Hotel, submitted its application Wednesday with the Rockland code enforcement office. The hotel opened May 1.
The parking area would be located on property owned by the state of Maine at 6 Union St., several hundred yards west of the hotel.
The hotel plans to plant some trees on the south side of the parking lot to shield the gravel parking lot from residences located on Pleasant Street. The parking area would be accessed through the parking area of Eastern Tire Service at 70 Park St. Park Street is commercial, while adjacent Pleasant is residential.
The application is tentatively scheduled to be heard by the planning board on June 7.
The project is expected to take three months to complete and will cost $15,000. Terms of any lease with the state were not immediately available.
The initial proposal by the company for an off-site parking lot would have located it off Pleasant Street on a lot the company purchased. That met with opposition from neighbors who opposed a commercial lot in a residential zone and the plan was dropped. The hotel plans to offer valet parking in the summer, when open parking spaces are at a premium downtown.