This website has been developed to provide Kennebunk residents with information regarding Dunroven Drive, a short street with four homes on a cul-de-sac adjacent to St. Martha's Catholic Church.

In 2003, after a two-year process that began in early 2001, the parking lot at St. Martha's was expanded by 71 spaces as a means of accommodating a growing parish. At the time of the expansion, the Kennebunk Site Plan Review Board denied a request by St. Martha's Parish to connect this new parking lot through the cul-de-sac on Dunroven Drive and required the church to construct a berm (pictured above) that would serve as a greenspace buffer between the church property and the Dunroven Drive neighborhood.

The public hearing held on December 21st has been continued until Tuesday, January 19th, 2010. At that time, the Zoning Board of Appeals will determine if citizens were unintentionally misled at a hearing held July 2, 2009...thinking that abutters to the St. Martha's Church property would be notifed by mail when the applicant would return to the Site Plan Review Board with additional information. Listen to the recording of the last 2 1/2 minutes of the July 2nd meeting at which the SPRB was talking about how the public would be informed once the applicant (St. Martha's) was ready to present the information requested.

Church and neighborood in conflict...a history

Examine a close-up map of the suburban commercial zone adjacent to the village residential zone (pdf)

Minutes of Site Plan Review Board Meetings related to St. Martha's Church and Dunroven Drive

Application for Appeal Submitted 11-13-09 by Residents of Dunroven Drive (pdf)

Alternatives for consideration

Link to Kennebuk's Comprehensive Plan

Link to Kennebunk's Zoning Ordinance

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