In reference to the lead article published Thursday, Aug. 2, in The Current, one statement is inaccurate, a second requires additional emphasis and a third factual clarification.

The article states the Pine Point Residents Group planned to meet Thursday, Aug. 2, to discuss the ordinance before it goes to a public hearing at the planning board meeting Monday, Aug. 6. The statement is inaccurate. The residents group meeting is scheduled Thursday, Aug. 9, three days subsequent to the planning board meeting and is not for the singular purpose of addressing the proposed ordinance.

Scarborough Town Manager Ronald Owens is quoted correctly in the article. However, it should be emphasized he stated, “the ordinance did arise in response (to) the Lighthouse Inn’s proposal, but not just because the Pine Point Resident’s Group was opposed to it.”

“The Moorings” referred to in The Current article are six free standing units converted 18 years ago to the Moorings by the Sea Condominium Association. A parking indenture filed in August 1989 at the Cumberland County Registry of Deeds provides eight individual parking spaces for the six units. An additional three locations not part of the indenture are also part of the association.

As suggested in the Current article, if the owners of the Lighthouse Inn use the Moorings as precedent for their proposal to convert the existing non-conforming “22 individually-owned units on the less than half acre plot of land” to a condo-tel, 40 off street parking spaces would be required.

I urge citizens to attend the meeting of the Pine Point Residents Group, Thursday, Aug. 9, at 7 p.m. at the Pine Point Fire Station.

Harold Hutchinson

Pine Point

Scarborough