Zoning, building permits and septic rules in Town of Eustis, Maine

Town of Eustis’s own rules

• Local zoningPresent (with conditions)

  Land inside Eustis town limits (Town of Eustis, Maine; physical office 88 Main Street, Stratton, ME 04982)

  • The town's own Land Use Ordinance is listed on the town's Code Enforcement page; its text was not opened, so its district rules are not stated here.
  • A separate Shore Land Zoning Ordinance also applies to the shoreland zone (see eustis-min-lot-shoreland-residential).

  “ordinances available online: land use ordinance land use map shore land zoning ordinance subdivision ordinance”

• Minimum lot sizeSpecified

  Residential lots (one dwelling unit per lot) inside Eustis town's shore land zone: land within 250 feet of a great pond or river, the upland edge of a freshwater wetland, or 75 feet of a stream

  • Figures come from the Shore Land Zoning Ordinance Section 15(a) table; the PDF text runs the table columns together. Residential is the first column: 40,000 sq ft minimum lot area and 200 ft shore frontage. Governmental, institutional, commercial or industrial uses per principal structure show 60,000 sq ft and 300 ft.
  • Land below the normal high-water line or upland edge of a wetland, and land beneath roads serving more than two lots, is not counted toward minimum lot area (Section 15(a)(2)).
  • These are shoreland-zone limits only. The main single-family district lot size in the Land Use Ordinance was not opened.

  minimum lot area, residential per dwelling unit (shore land zone): >= 40000 square feet (Land below normal high-water line or wetland upland edge, and land beneath roads serving more than two lots, is not counted) · minimum shore frontage, residential (shore land zone): >= 200 feet (Governmental, institutional, commercial or industrial uses per principal structure require 300 feet)

  “minimum lot area (square feet) minimum 40,000 200 shore frontage (feet) 60,000 300 40,000 200”

• Subdividing landRegulated (with conditions)

  Divisions of land inside Eustis town limits under the Town of Eustis Subdivision Ordinance

  • The Subdivision Ordinance is listed as available online; its text was not opened, so the definition of subdivision and thresholds are not stated here.
  • A planning-board item reported a two-lot split as not a subdivision, with further divisions within five years requiring approval. That came from a search snippet, not an opened page, and is not relied on here.

  “ordinances available online: land use ordinance land use map shore land zoning ordinance subdivision ordinance”

Still unanswered

We looked and could not find an official answer yet. Silence is not permission; ask Town of Eustis or Franklin County directly.

• Building permit — New construction inside Eustis town
• Owner-builder exemption — Owner-builder exemption inside Eustis town
• Building code adopted — Building code applicable inside Eustis town
• Inspections — Building inspection for new construction inside Eustis town
• Certificate of occupancy — Certificate of occupancy for new dwellings inside Eustis town

Each answer was extracted from an official source and independently re-checked against that source by a second reviewer. That is an evidence check, not legal advice. Rules change; confirm with the authority before you buy or build.