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Bar Harbor’s Iconic Water Company Building Might Eventually Find a New Home

Planning Board Moves Cruise Ship and Transient Accommodation Potential Changes, JAX Expansion to Public Hearings CARRIE JONES JUL 06, 2024 Share BAR HARBOR—Every once in a while something big moves through Bar Harbor. It might be an MRI building. It might be a tree heading toward the other part of the island. It might be a home. In the future, it might be the iconic … Continue reading Bar Harbor’s Iconic Water Company Building Might Eventually Find a New Home

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Smart Cards No Longer an Option at Bar Harbor Parking Kiosks

Margaret Porter recognized, Planning Board composition discussed CARRIE JONES JUN 24, 2024 Share BAR HARBOR—On Monday, the town of Bar Harbor issued a release that said that because of “recent changes from our manufacturer, IPS Group, our town’s parking kiosks will no longer support smart card payments.” The town apologized for the inconvenience.   The town’s kiosks will still accept $1.00 parking tokens, which are … Continue reading Smart Cards No Longer an Option at Bar Harbor Parking Kiosks

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Council Begins Parallel Path Toward Cruise Ship Rules

Plan has to adhere to three core principles: public trust, lower visitation, and less lawsuits CARRIE JONES JUN 14, 2024 Share BAR HARBOR—Two current lawsuits continue to surround the town’s voter-enacted and citizen-created cruise ship disembarkations. The Town Council would like there not to be any more. One is a federal suit, currently in appeals, about the constitutionality of changes. One is in state courts, … Continue reading Council Begins Parallel Path Toward Cruise Ship Rules

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What Size Should Bar Harbor’s Planning Board Be?

Planning Department Discusses Potential Sight Lines and Campground Changes to LUO in November CARRIE JONES MAY 02, 2024 Share BAR HARBOR—With two members not continuing in July and an empty, as yet unadvertised seat, the Bar Harbor Planning Board pondered whether it should advocate staying a seven-person board or think about either being a five-person board or a five-person board with two alternates. By the … Continue reading What Size Should Bar Harbor’s Planning Board Be?

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Brigadoon Subdivision Moves Forward

Five home lots will go off the Crooked Road CARRIE JONES APR 09, 2024 Share TOWN HILL—A five-lot subdivision in Town Hill has been found complete after multiple meetings and tweaks to the subdivision on land off the Crooked Road. Christopher Bettencourt and Denise Carey Bettencourt own the land. Some of the lots can’t be offered for sale until the road into the site is … Continue reading Brigadoon Subdivision Moves Forward

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Planning Board Unanimously Recommends All Potential Land Use Changes

Changes deal with shared accommodations, employee living quarters, state LD2003 and design review process CARRIE JONES MAR 10, 2024 BAR HARBOR—On Wednesday night, the Bar Harbor Planning Board unanimously recommended for voters to adopt four potential land use ordinance changes, three of which deal with either the state or the municipalities efforts to help with housing. Each potential change will go to voters on June … Continue reading Planning Board Unanimously Recommends All Potential Land Use Changes

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Endangered Bats Could Make Developing Homes in Town Hill Difficult

Brigadoon Subdivision Heads to Public Hearing in March, Cough Resigns from Planning Board, Board Delves into Purpose of a Public Hearing CARRIE JONES FEB 1, 2024 BAR HARBOR—There’s a new player causing worries about the development of housing in Bar Harbor. It’s not NIMBY-ism. And while water tables and nitrates are often a worry, that’s not a brand new concern. The newest player that could … Continue reading Endangered Bats Could Make Developing Homes in Town Hill Difficult

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Local Pleas For Quick Cap on Bed and Breakfast Rooms

Planning Board sets public hearings on multiple potential land use amendments BAR HARBOR—The Bar Harbor Planning Board moved several potential changes to the land use ordinance to public hearings in January bringing the proposed amendments one step closer to voters, who in June will decide to approve those changes or not. The steps came at the end of a two-hour meeting on Thursday, during which … Continue reading Local Pleas For Quick Cap on Bed and Breakfast Rooms

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Planning Board Visits Brigadoon

Neighbors and Planning Board members walk potential housing subdivision site SHAUN FARRAR NOV 6, 2023 Share BAR HARBOR­­––Thirteen members of the community, Bar Harbor Planning Board, and planning department met on the Crooked Road, November 2, to walk the 179.21 acres of the proposed Brigadoon Acres Subdivision. The property is the only housing subdivision before the board. Four abutting property owners, Barbara Tennent of Frenchman’s … Continue reading Planning Board Visits Brigadoon

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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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