By Renee Worthing
Staff Writer
  Kennebunkport voters heading to the polls June 10 will be asked to vote on nine questions as well as select two candidates for the director of Maine School Administrative District 71.
The candidates are Norman Archer and incumbent Maureen King. John Sharood has been declared a write-in candidate (see profiles).
Question 8 seeks voter approval to amend the Kennebunkport Land Use Ordinance. The amendment would continue to allow contract zoning, but would make certain changes that would provide for joint consideration of proposals by the board of selectman and the planning board with a public hearing.
  Question 9, initiated as a citizen’s petition, asks if the town should enact an ordinance that addresses repealing contract zoning. The current land use ordinance allows contract zoning. The amendment would repeal Article 13 of the land use ordinance in it entirety.
  In addition, voters will be asked to authorize the tax collector to refund excess motor vehicle excise tax credits if the credit available exceeds the amount transferred to another vehicle. A new state law, passed in 2007, gives each municipality the option to refund any excess excise tax credits, but only when a less expensive car is replacing a more expensive car in the same year.
  Question 2 asks voters if the town should amend the mass gathering ordinance in order to allow the town to permit and regulate certain large-scale commercial and non-commercial mass gatherings.
  Question 3 asks voters if a board of assessment review should be added to the administrative code. The proposed amendment would create a board of assessment review to hear appeals of property valuation decisions made by the town’s assessor. Currently, valuation appeals are heard by the York County Commissioners.
  Question 4 asks if two alternate members of the Growth Planning Committee should be added.
  Amendments to the table of contents and introduction of the Comprehensive Plan are addressed in Question 5.
  Question 6 seeks to enact an ordinance that permits golf courses in existence since Jan. 1, to operate as a conditional use in the village residential zone, subject to site plan review.
  Question 7 asks if an amendment to the shoreland zoning ordinance should be enacted. According to the sample ballot, the amendment would make several revisions to Kennebunkport’s land use ordinance designed to bring it into compliance with the state’s recently revised mandatory shoreland zoning regulations established by the Department of Environmental Protection.
  All Kennebunkport residents vote at the Village Fire Station, 32 North Street. The polls will be open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.