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Two Towns, Two Paths: Bar Harbor and Southwest Harbor Tackle Land-Use Challenges. While Bar Harbor weighs lodging reforms and a possible moratorium extension, Southwest Harbor works to update ordinances and streamline development review.
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Two Towns, Two Paths: Bar Harbor and Southwest Harbor Tackle Land-Use Challenges.

While Bar Harbor weighs lodging reforms and a possible moratorium extension, Southwest Harbor works to update ordinances and streamline development review. Carrie Jones Jun 08, 2026 The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by Edward Jones Financial Advisor: Elise N. Frank. SOUTHWEST HARBOR AND BAR HARBOR—Two Mount Desert Island Planning Boards are moving forward in different ways as they try to organize processes that could have … Continue reading Two Towns, Two Paths: Bar Harbor and Southwest Harbor Tackle Land-Use Challenges.

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What Might Be Changing in Bar Harbor? Planning Board Advances Rules on Housing, Lodging, and Growth
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What Might Be Changing in Bar Harbor?

Planning Board Advances Rules on Housing, Lodging, and Growth Carrie Jones Jan 12, 2026 The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by Edward Jones Financial Advisor: Elise N. Frank BAR HARBOR—In what was mostly a standard meeting about fine-tuning and moving potential changes in Bar Harbor’s land use rules forward to the town council and voters, the Bar Harbor planning board took two forays during its January 7 … Continue reading What Might Be Changing in Bar Harbor?

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Bar Harbor Vacation Rental Definition Questioned Appeals Board Upholds Code Enforcement Officer's Permit for Bogue Chitto Property
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Bar Harbor Vacation Rental Definition Questioned

Appeals Board Upholds Code Enforcement Officer’s Permit for Bogue Chitto Property Carrie Jones Sep 10, 2025 The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by Window Panes Home and Garden. BAR HARBOR—Can the owner of a vacation rental close off a portion of the home when renting it in the short-term when that rental is not the owner’s primary residence? That was the question attorney Colin W.B. Chard put … Continue reading Bar Harbor Vacation Rental Definition Questioned

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Southwest Harbor Begins Action Against Property Owner

Potential Harbor Ordinance Changes in Southwest Harbor Carrie Jones Aug 15, 2025 The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by Ironbound Restaurant – Inn – Gatherings. SOUTHWEST HARBOR—The Southwest Harbor Select Board authorized Code Enforcement Officer John Larson to file 80K Action against the owner of 125 Bass Harbor Road during its Tuesday, August 12 meeting. “I don’t think we have an option,” said select board member Natasha … Continue reading Southwest Harbor Begins Action Against Property Owner

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Mount Desert Warrant Committee Talks Land Use
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Mount Desert Warrant Committee Talks Land Use

Shaun Farrar Feb 17, 2025 Share The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by Side Street Cafe. MOUNT DESERT—Manufactured housing, which by definition includes mobile homes is allowed “to be placed or erected on individual house lots where single-family dwellings are allowed,” reads an almost one-year-old amendment to Maine law which was signed by Governor Janet Mills in March of 2024 and is an effort to increase affordable housing opportunities in Maine. … Continue reading Mount Desert Warrant Committee Talks Land Use

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Public Hearing Land Use Ordinance Gets People Talking about Bar Harbor’s Success Ladder

Others worry about the impact of homes expanding into Town Hill CARRIE JONES FEB 8, 2024 Share BAR HARBOR—Worries about how housing development might impact the character and water table of Town Hill, whose responsibility it is to find homes for others, and that potential land-use ordinance changes are too business-centric were the concerns of some of the twenty or so in-person attendees at a … Continue reading Public Hearing Land Use Ordinance Gets People Talking about Bar Harbor’s Success Ladder

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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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If They Change It, Will They Build?

Planning Board Ponders Potential Land Use Changes, also recent real estate transfers CARRIE JONES NOV 3, 2023 Share BAR HARBOR—The Bar Harbor Planning Board didn’t have any projects to approve during its Wednesday night meeting but for two and a half hours, the members advised staff on multiple potential land use ordinance changes that govern how Bar Harbor can be developed. The land use ordinance … Continue reading If They Change It, Will They Build?

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