The amendments allow for relatively small primary use solar installations and clarifies rules for solar panels on residents’ roofs and yards.
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Bath seeks public input on its updated Land Use Code
The city’s planning team and urban planning firm Camiros will host a series of open houses to hear public comment.
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How Maine is creating homes in forgotten and unlikely places
Faced with a vexing housing crisis, Mainers are finding ways to build homes in abandoned and undeveloped spaces. But costs, public opposition and an uncertain economy are impeding progress.
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Yarmouth solar project hits zoning hurdle
The widely contested 0 Layfette St. solar proposal near the Holy Cross Cemetery cannot proceed unless the zoning is amended to allow commercial solar use.
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First Church of Waterville files federal lawsuit against the city
Church leaders say the city has stymied its religious land use by failing to let it remove two buildings from its property.
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Why the dream of a starter home in Maine is slipping out of reach
Young people can’t find or afford houses in their communities. Families can’t move out of places they’ve outgrown. The cycle is stuck. Can it be fixed?
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Cape Elizabeth OKs new Cookie Jar site plan, leaves front parking untouched
Under the new site plan, the parking spaces along the building’s Shore Road facade are listed as ‘existing casual parking’ but are not delineated. Planning Board members said that should preserve the status quo.
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Portland council approves first major changes to zoning rules in decades
The councilors unanimously approved the years-in-the-making ‘ReCode’ effort to redraw the city’s land use ordinance for the first time since the 1970s.
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Cape Elizabeth Town Council delays decision on Cookie Jar parking spaces
Councilors say they need more information about the parking situation at the popular bakery before they vote to formalize the business’s use of the area in front of the building.
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Cape Elizabeth considers allowing bakery to keep parking spots despite zoning rules
Tensions have been escalating in town over a perception that the Cape Elizabeth Planning Board is trying to remove four parking spaces outside the Cookie Jar.