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Creativity Needed to Help Make Housing More Affordable

Bar Harbor Council Approves Spending $24k on Wetlands Study for Park Parcel SHAUN FARRAR APR 17, 2024 Share MOUNT DESERT ISLAND—More affordable housing? Thriving year-round economies? More kids in local schools? These are some of the goals and potential benefits of the growing effort to combat the lack of affordable housing and to bolster year-round populations on Mount Desert Island. At its April 16 meeting, … Continue reading Creativity Needed to Help Make Housing More Affordable

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Kebo Street Employee Housing Hosts Its Tiniest Fans

New housing will be seasonal home to over 80 CARRIE JONES MAR 29, 2024 Share BAR HARBOR—One of the town’s first large, shared accommodation buildings in downtown Bar Harbor hosted a ribbon cutting celebration on Thursday afternoon at 3 p.m. The Witham Family Hotels hope that the building will help address the shortage of affordable workforce housing in Bar Harbor. It is meant to house … Continue reading Kebo Street Employee Housing Hosts Its Tiniest Fans

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Can a Town Pass the Halloween Test?

Housing needs dominate League of Towns’ discussion this week CARRIE JONES MAR 1, 2024 Share TRENTON—When he’s trying to determine the health of his year-round neighborhood, Noel Musson has a Halloween test. He walks around Southwest Harbor and notices the houses. Which are still full. Which aren’t. Are there places where his kids once trick-or-treated that are no longer being used as homes? An equally … Continue reading Can a Town Pass the Halloween Test?

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Town Council Moves Housing Ordinances to the Voters

Housing Needs and Watershed Worries Clash at Emotional Meeting CARRIE JONES FEB 21, 2024 Share BAR HARBOR—Emotions ran high for some Bar Harbor residents as they pled, Tuesday night, for the Town Council to stop the progress of three amendments to town rules that would allow more housing types and density. Jane Disney. Lucien Smith. Dennis Bracale. Lorraine Donnely. Ed Damm. Dessa Dancy. Jake Jagel. … Continue reading Town Council Moves Housing Ordinances to the Voters

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Building Between a Ledge and A Wet Place

Potential Housing Amendments Move To Town Council Amid Some Town Hill Residents’ Worries CARRIE JONES JAN 4, 2024 Share BAR HARBOR—Concerns about water use, sewer capacities, and nitrates as well as the re-purposing of potential employee living quarters in many zoning districts dominated the Planning Board’s public hearing on Wednesday, June 3, about multiple potential land use ordinance amendments that deal with adding specific types … Continue reading Building Between a Ledge and A Wet Place

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Bar Harbor Likely Can’t Meet Housing Needs On Its Own

Comprehensive Planning Committee Talks Actions, Climate, and Housing CARRIE JONES DEC 14, 2023 BAR HARBOR—The Comprehensive Planning Committee took a deep dive into housing and climate change as its members worked through an overview of the plan’s proposed draft themes and actions, Wednesday night. The state mandates that municipalities update their comprehensive plans and the plans are meant to guide the town and help officials … Continue reading Bar Harbor Likely Can’t Meet Housing Needs On Its Own

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Bar Harbor’s Planning Department Works To Make Potential Changes. Will the Town Be Ready To, Too?

Martinez discusses possible expansion of where employee living quarters and shared accommodations are allowed to be built CARRIE JONES OCT 27, 2023 Share BAR HARBOR—Bar Harbor planners presented another step that they hope, if voters approve, will help ease the town’s housing crisis. On Thursday, October 26, during a listening session, staff detailed a proposed changes to the town’s land use ordinance that would create … Continue reading Bar Harbor’s Planning Department Works To Make Potential Changes. Will the Town Be Ready To, Too?

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Bar Harbor and Maine Have a Housing Problem

Town Workshop Delves Into Work Done, Work Still To Do CARRIE JONES OCT 11, 2023 Share BAR HARBOR—Housing in Maine used to be affordable. Now it’s not. Bar Harbor? Same thing. Last week, the state released the “State of Maine Housing Production Needs Study,” which found that the Maine housing market “changed in the years leading up to the pandemic and has worsened since 2020.” … Continue reading Bar Harbor and Maine Have a Housing Problem

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If They Zone It, Will They Come?

Employee Housing And Shared Accommodations Survey Results Coming In For Rural Districts CARRIE JONES SEP 9, 2023 Share BAR HARBOR—When Glenon Friedmann, wanted to build a few cabins for workers at the Bar Harbor Farm at 115 Gilbert Farm Road, she couldn’t. The farm is in the Town Hill rural district, one of Bar Harbor’s 40 land use zones, but more importantly one where employee … Continue reading If They Zone It, Will They Come?

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New State Rules Mean Big Changes to Bar Harbor’s Land Use

Town Planner Brings Zoning Overlay Possibility To Planning Board CARRIE JONES SEP 8, 2023 Share BAR HARBOR—Affordable housing is an issue throughout Maine, and in an attempt to help with that, the state created new rules, LD 2003, meant to require municipalities to ease zoning rules about residential uses. On September 6 at the Planning Board meeting, Town Planner Michele Gagnon presented suggested modifications to … Continue reading New State Rules Mean Big Changes to Bar Harbor’s Land Use

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