TIMES RECORD • February 12, 2021
The Bath City Council voted to table proposed Planning Board language that would have made it possible to install solar panels visible from a public street in the historic district. Bath’s Land Use Code makes no distinction between a building constructed hundreds of years ago and the one which we purchased and now worship in, a former flat-roofed service station erected in 1960. Built of concrete blocks, it was eventually converted to a steakhouse with a sloping roof. We have put its commercial kitchen to good use serving 60-80 meals weekly to our food-insecure neighbors. Bath’s Land Use Code is outdated in its treatment of solar. ~ Sam Saltonstall, Neighborhood United Church of Christ