A week after the Windham Town Council voted 5-1 to reject the controversial quarry application from Busque Construction, members of the Windham business community have expressed frustration.

“We’re disappointed with the town councils response and vote,” said Barbara Clark, executive director of the Sebago Lakes Region Chamber of Commerce. Clark said Busque Construction owner Peter Busque followed “the letter of the law” of the town ordinance.

The application had been approved by the Windham Planning Board before it was rejected by the town council.

Clark said last week that she believes the application rejection may be contested. Busque has still not announced what he intends to do.

“I would be discouraged to expand my business knowing what I’d have to go through,” said George Hall, owner of Hall Implement that sells farm machinery.

“We all need rock and concrete to build our roads with, and it’s got to come from somewhere,” he added.

Town Councilor Carol Waig attempted to read two letters at the Dec. 16 town council workshop meeting, but was told by council chairman John MacKinnon to wait until next Tuesday’s meeting.

Waig did not disclose the contents of the two letters, but said the authors held a view that they felt had not been expressed at the council meeting. Waig and the other councilors revealed that they had all received numerous phone calls about the outcome of the quarry application with a similar message.

The council still needs to vote to approve a written declaration of their denial of the quarry application to make it official. Town Attorney Ken Cole is writing the declaration.

Windham residents who live near the site where the quarry was proposed argued in previous town meetings that the quarry would bring a disturbance to their neighborhood and cause numerous hazards and environmental damage.

The town council voted that it agreed with several of these claims involving traffic, risk to groundwater, drainage and blasting vibrations.

A week after the Windham Town Council voted 5-1 to reject the controversial quarry application from Busque Construction, members of the Windham business community have expressed frustration.

“We’re disappointed with the town councils response and vote,” said Barbara Clark, executive director of the Sebago Lakes Region Chamber of Commerce. Clark said Busque Construction owner Peter Busque followed “the letter of the law” of the town ordinance.

The application had been approved by the Windham Planning Board before it was rejected by the town council.

Clark said last week that she believes the application rejection may be contested. Busque has still not announced what he intends to do.

“I would be discouraged to expand my business knowing what I’d have to go through,” said George Hall, owner of Hall Implement that sells farm machinery.

“We all need rock and concrete to build our roads with, and it’s got to come from somewhere,” he added.

Town Councilor Carol Waig attempted to read two letters at the Dec. 16 town council workshop meeting, but was told by council chairman John MacKinnon to wait until next Tuesday’s meeting.

Waig did not disclose the contents of the two letters, but said the authors held a view that they felt had not been expressed at the council meeting. Waig and the other councilors revealed that they had all received numerous phone calls about the outcome of the quarry application with a similar message.

The council still needs to vote to approve a written declaration of their denial of the quarry application to make it official. Town Attorney Ken Cole is writing the declaration.

Windham residents who live near the site where the quarry was proposed argued in previous town meetings that the quarry would bring a disturbance to their neighborhood and cause numerous hazards and environmental damage.

The town council voted that it agreed with several of these claims involving traffic, risk to groundwater, drainage and blasting vibrations.