CHINA -- Members of the public had comments at both public hearings at Tuesday's Planning Board meeting.

Timothy O'Brien's proposed seven-lot subdivision on the east side of McCaslin Road drew expressions of concern from two residents on Pleasantview Ridge Road, while a resident in Jason and Melissa Finley's Weeks Mills Road subdivision had a question about the requested additional lot.

O'Brien's subdivision plan calls for a new road leading off McCaslin Road. McCaslin Road is a dead-end road off Pleasantview Ridge Road. Rosalyn Vance and Rhonda Newton, who live on Pleasantview Ridge Road a short distance east of the McCaslin Road intersection, are concerned about additional traffic from the subdivision such as vehicles, pedestrians and youngsters on bicycles.

They said their narrow, winding road is already unsafe. Traffic has increased a lot in the last few years, including heavy trucks, and most drivers ignore the speed limit, they said.

Planning Board Chairman Scott Rollins said the board can consider the intersection of the proposed subdivision road with McCaslin Road, and perhaps the intersection of McCaslin and Pleasantview Ridge roads, but cannot take traffic on the latter road into account in its decision. Vance also asked who would enforce the planned deed covenants for subdivision homeowners.

Surveyor Elwood Ellis said most would be enforced by the homeowners' association.

Rollins added that the town's code enforcement officer could act in case of violation of covenants that are also permit requirements, such as the limit on cleared areas that is intended to control stormwater runoff.

In response to Vance and Newton's concerns about environmental impacts, Ellis and board members reviewed the engineering work done as part of the subdivision application.

The Finley subdivision amendment will add a back lot that will share a driveway with the lot where Jason Fredette now lives.

Fredette asked whether he and his neighbor would have to form a road association. Told that they would not, because an access serving only two houses is technically a driveway rather than a road, he was satisfied.

Board members determined that each application is complete. They deferred final decisions to their Sept. 23 meeting, to give Rollins and Code Enforcement Officer Scott Pierz time to draft findings of fact to support their votes.

In other business Tuesday, board members voted to recommend voter approval of a proposed Wireless Telecommunications Facilities Siting Ordinance, if selectmen put it on the Nov. 4 local ballot. Their vote was 3-0 with Peter Foote abstaining and two members absent.

South China businessman Thadius Barber discussed with board members what he needs to do to bring his property at the intersection of Route 3 and Vassalboro Road into compliance with state and local requirements.

Barber's U-haul rental business lacks a Planning Board permit. Its location conflicts with a park and ride lot that Rollins said was a condition the state required when Barber got his state highway entrance permit.

To allow Barber time to discuss with state officials the size of the park and ride lot, board members gave him until Sept. 30 to either discontinue the U-Haul business -- which he said he is willing to do.

-- or apply for a permit for it.