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including travel, to be paid by the Maine State Housing
Authority.

 
D.__Within 60 days of receiving a written request for a
precertified development along with a complete plan, the
board, by a vote of a majority of the members present and
voting, shall issue a written finding:

 
(1)__Certifying that the complete plan meets the
design guidelines established pursuant to subsection
5 for an affordable neighborhood development; or

 
(2)__Denying certification that the plan meets the
design guidelines for an affordable neighborhood
development and giving the reasons for the denial.__
An applicant whose request for certification is
denied may resubmit a new complete plan at a later
date.

 
4.__Regulation of affordable neighborhood development.__An
affordable neighborhood development is regulated as follows.

 
A.__Except as required under Title 38 or an ordinance
adopted pursuant to Title 38, a municipality may not
require that a single-family house lot within a
precertified development be larger than 5,000 square feet
or have frontage of more than 50 feet on any road, except
that the municipality may require that the average
frontage of all lots in that development be at least 70
feet and may not require dimensional standards for lots,
buildings or roads in excess of the design guidelines
established pursuant to subsection 5.

 
B.__Except as required under Title 38 or an ordinance
adopted pursuant to Title 38, a municipality may not
require that a multifamily lot within a precertified
development have fewer than 7 dwelling units per acre and
may not require dimensional standards for lots, buildings
or roads in excess of the design guidelines established
pursuant to subsection 5.

 
C.__A precertified development may be located in any area of a
municipality where other residential development is allowed as
long as public sewer service is available to the precertified
development either through an existing line or through a line
that could be extended to that development. If a municipal
zoning district authorized pursuant to a consistent
comprehensive plan permits only single-family dwellings, the
precertified development must be restricted to single-family
dwellings, accessory dwelling units and


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