Landscape design in New Gloucester, Maine.
A landscape plan for a New Gloucester property usually covers more ground than one in a coastal suburb. Around 71% of the town's homes are single-unit houses, most of them on lots of one to five acres under the zoning ordinance, and many share the parcel with a private well, a septic system, a long driveway and woods or old field.
We walk the site, draw the plan and build it with our own crews: plantings, hardscape, grading and drainage worked out together. In this town, the plan also has to answer to setbacks and overlay districts that decide where digging and clearing are allowed at all.
Fixed points on the site plan
Section 5.1.25 of the zoning ordinance keeps individual wells and septic systems at least 100 feet apart, including a neighbor's well. Those two points, plus the reserve area a site evaluator marks for a future leach field, are fixed before anything else is drawn. Patios, walls and trees go around them; so do grading changes that could send runoff toward the well head.
If the lot is inside the Groundwater Protection Overlay District, total impervious surface is limited to 10% without site plan review. The design counts roof, drive and patio against that figure early, and leans on gravel, lawn and planted areas where hard surface is not needed.
Shoreland and resource protection areas
Parcels within 250 feet of a great pond, river or significant wetland fall in the Limited Residential Shoreland District, and on the west side of Sabbathday Lake the district extends to 500 feet. Within 100 feet of a Class GPA great pond or a river flowing into one, a vegetated buffer must stay: no canopy opening over 250 square feet, a footpath no wider than six feet, and ground cover and leaf litter left in place.
Maine classifies all great ponds as GPA, so that 100-foot standard applies at Sabbathday Lake. A design there puts the lawn and patio behind the buffer and treats the shore strip as planted woodland.
Reading the ground before drawing
The NRCS soil survey for the town shows well-drained Paxton till on the hills, excessively drained Hinckley and Windsor sands on outwash, and wet Lamoine and Scantic silts in the lowlands. Drainage design follows from that: swales and dry wells work on sand, while clay sites need surface grading and outlets. Plant selection follows the same map.
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How we handle landscape design
We design landscapes that work as a whole — plantings, patios, walls, grading and drainage planned together before the first shovel breaks ground. Whether it is a full property redesign or a single outdoor living space, we walk the site, draw the plan and build it with our own crews.
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