SOUTHWEST HARBOR — The town’s planning board on Tuesday said it would approve a plan for a subdivision next to a waste site conditioned on the results of a soil pollution test, which will be presented by the developer, Ben “Lee” Worcester, at a future date.

The property is owned by Worcester, who is also the Planning Board’s vice chair. The Planning Board’s decision came after a previous split vote about evaluating the soil on the property.

Worcester’s family owns the nearby Eastern Maine Recycling transfer station and a six-acre landfill that abuts Worcester’s proposed 12-lot Trundy Farm subdivision on the Long Pond Road.

The nearly 100-year-old landfill was last used in the 1990s. Pollution from it has been found in groundwater east and south of the site. It is being monitored by the

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