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What One Added Clause Means for Bar Harbor’s Moratorium—and Its Planning Department.

From Lodging to Housing: How One Council Amendment Reshaped Bar Harbor’s Moratorium Workload. Shaun Farrar Sep 14, 2025 The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by Acadia Psychiatry. BAR HARBOR—Bar Harbor’s new moratorium on certain transient accommodations (lodgings) was built on a series of “whereas” clauses meant to explain and justify the moratorium and to give the planning department guidance on information gathering. Over the next … Continue reading What One Added Clause Means for Bar Harbor’s Moratorium—and Its Planning Department.

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Planning Board Hears Data Related to Bar Harbor’s Lodging Freeze Lodging prompted the loss of 17 dwelling units since 2007
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Planning Board Hears Data Related to Bar Harbor’s Lodging Freeze

Lodging prompted the loss of 17 dwelling units since 2007 Carrie Jones Sep 09, 2025 The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by First National Wealth Management. BAR HARBOR—The Bar Harbor Planning Board, charged with reviewing data and making recommendations in regards to the town’s moratorium on multiple lodging uses, heard a draft report on the data analysis presented by the town’s planning department in a … Continue reading Planning Board Hears Data Related to Bar Harbor’s Lodging Freeze

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Bar Harbor Story 7 21 Planning Board Weighs Minutes’ Purpose as Lodging Moratorium Data and Presentations Near Possible Completion. Public Works Presentation Currently Set for October. Citizen Worries About Process.
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Planning Board Weighs Minutes’ Purpose as Lodging Moratorium Data and Presentations Near Possible Completion.

Public Works Presentation Currently Set for October. Citizen Worries About Process. Carrie Jones Sep 05, 2025 The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by The 1932 Criterion Theatre. BAR HARBOR—Exactly how detailed should minutes for town boards be? That question surfaced at a September 3 Bar Harbor Planning Board meeting when Chair Millard Dority wondered about how his criticism of the town’s slow pace on a … Continue reading Planning Board Weighs Minutes’ Purpose as Lodging Moratorium Data and Presentations Near Possible Completion.

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Planning Board Does Not Allow Application To Rebuild Park Entrance Motel to Move Forward
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Planning Board Does Not Allow Application To Rebuild Park Entrance Motel to Move Forward

Carrie Jones Jul 05, 2025 Share The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by Acadia Shops. BAR HARBOR—The Bar Harbor Planning Board did not allow the rebuild of a hotel in Hulls Cove to move forward this week due to a moratorium on lodging in the town. The night before the planning board’s Wednesday meeting, the town council had extended the moratorium for another 180 days … Continue reading Planning Board Does Not Allow Application To Rebuild Park Entrance Motel to Move Forward

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Lodging Moratorium Extended as Bar Harbor Continues to Collect Data Council Extends Lodging Freeze, Sparking Discussion on Development and Housing
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Lodging Moratorium Extended as Bar Harbor Continues to Collect Data

Council Extends Lodging Freeze, Sparking Discussion on Development and Housing Carrie Jones Jul 02, 2025 Share The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by Window Panes Home and Garden. BAR HARBOR—Bar Harbor’s moratorium on multiple lodging types has been extended for another 180 days. “I don’t think it is time to put a stop to the moratorium,” Councilor Joe Minutolo said during a Tuesday night town … Continue reading Lodging Moratorium Extended as Bar Harbor Continues to Collect Data

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Bar Harbor Will Look Toward Potential Lodging Moratorium Extension This Week While Another Potential Hotel Project Waits Warrant Committee Organizes, Design Review Board Approves Restaurant Deck
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Bar Harbor Will Look Toward Potential Lodging Moratorium Extension This Week While Another Potential Hotel Project Waits

Warrant Committee Organizes, Design Review Board Approves Restaurant Deck Carrie Jones Jun 28, 2025 Share BAR HARBOR—The Bar Harbor Town Council will hold a public hearing that will potentially extend its moratorium on lodging (such as hotels and inns) projects and renovations on Tuesday, July 1. The meeting begins at 6:30 and is at the town’s municipal building on Cottage Street. During that hearing, members … Continue reading Bar Harbor Will Look Toward Potential Lodging Moratorium Extension This Week While Another Potential Hotel Project Waits

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Will Bar Harbor's Lodging Moratorium Be Extended? Public hearing scheduled for July 1
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Will Bar Harbor’s Lodging Moratorium Be Extended?

Public hearing scheduled for July 1 Carrie Jones Jun 19, 2025 Share The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by Swan Agency Real Estate. BAR HARBOR—A lodging moratorium in Bar Harbor may be extended. Tuesday, June 17, the Bar Harbor Town Council scheduled a public hearing on that possible extension. The hearing will be July 1 at 6:30 p.m. in the council chambers in the municipal … Continue reading Will Bar Harbor’s Lodging Moratorium Be Extended?

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Bar Harbor Public Safety Chiefs Outline Current Challenges, Future Needs Amid Lodging Moratorium
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Bar Harbor Public Safety Chiefs Outline Current Challenges, Future Needs Amid Lodging Moratorium

Carrie Jones Apr 29, 2025 Share The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by Paradis Ace Hardware. BAR HARBOR—Are Bar Harbor’s public safety services and related infrastructure adequate to meet the town’s current and future needs? That was one of the questions meant to be answered as Bar Harbor Housing and Community Planner Cali Martinez led the town’s police and fire chiefs in a discussion at … Continue reading Bar Harbor Public Safety Chiefs Outline Current Challenges, Future Needs Amid Lodging Moratorium

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No More Lodging Ones in Bar Harbor's Future? Planning Board Quickly Susses Out Perceived Issues with Lodging Type
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No More Lodging Ones in Bar Harbor’s Future?

Planning Board Quickly Susses Out Perceived Issues with Lodging Type Carrie Jones Apr 26, 2025 Share BAR HARBOR—The Bar Harbor Planning Board quickly discussed at the tail end of its workshop Wednesday potentially getting rid of a category of lodging in the town. “This one is my pet peeve,” Planning Board Chair Millard Dority said. “Mine too,” agreed member Guy Dunphey. Lodging one is a type … Continue reading No More Lodging Ones in Bar Harbor’s Future?

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Moratorium Talks: What Has a Place in Bar Harbor? Workshop continues to collect information
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Moratorium Talks: What Has a Place in Bar Harbor?

Workshop continues to collect information Carrie Jones Apr 01, 2025 Share The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by First National Bank. BAR HARBOR—As the Bar Harbor Planning Board worked through lodging moratorium issues, March 27, its members heard a history of transportation and lodging on Mount Desert Island from Dr. Sean Cox, managing editor of the Mount Desert Island Historical Society’s Chebacco. “It wasn’t an automobile island … Continue reading Moratorium Talks: What Has a Place in Bar Harbor?

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