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?
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
Fire Chief’s Long Range Goal Is For All Residential and Transient Accommodations to Have Sprinkler Systems CARRIE JONES SEP 7, 2023 Share BAR HARBOR—Though there is always time for public comment at Bar Harbor Planning Board meetings, that opportunity isn’t always taken. However, Wednesday’s Planning Board meeting began in an unusual way: with a public comment and a cautionary statement from Town Hill resident Diane … Continue reading Cabins Approved in Town Hill
Planning Board discusses LD 2003, Shared Housing and Employee Work Quarters, 10 new cabins, and a four-room hotel or motel CARRIE JONES AUG 3, 2023 Share BAR HARBOR—The Bar Harbor Planning Board met August 2 with one new member, Cosmo Nims, who was quickly thrown into the world of land use ordinances, state mandates, and proposed projects, a world where a lot of changes could … Continue reading Changes May Be Afoot For Bar Harbor Zoning Rules
Maybe 15 Types Too Many. Town Starts To Try To Simplify CARRIE JONES JUL 6, 2023 BAR HARBOR—Bar Harbor voters may get to weigh in on a lodging amendment, but not before Code Enforcement Officer Angela Chamberlain makes sure that there are public workshops and discussions with the people who could be potentially impacted by changing the town’s definitions of lodging. The potential changes to … Continue reading How Many Types of Lodging Uses Are There in Bar Harbor?
Planning Board hears Hamor Lane and Kebo Street sketch plans Carrie Jones BAR HARBOR—The Bar Harbor Planning Board and Comprehensive Planning Committee lose a member now that Calistra Martinez is taking the place of Steve Fuller, Bar Harbor’s last assistant planner. Fuller had left earlier this year to become an editor at the Ellsworth American. “We’re very excited to have Cali,” Town Planner Michele Gagnon said. … Continue reading Town Hires Board Member for Planning Department
Planning Board holds public hearings on four potential land use ordinance changes BAR HARBOR—At the beginning of the Bar Harbor Planning Board’s meeting, Chair Millard Dority ran through a list of housing strategies from the Housing Policy Framework, which was passed in 2019 by the Town Council. Develop short-term rental restrictions? “That has been done,” he said. Develop zoning for employee housing? “That has been … Continue reading Proposed Changes Could Increase Development in Bar Harbor
Shovel-Ready Amendments May Go Before Voters in June, Assistant Planner Resigns for New Position BAR HARBOR—The town’s Planning Department presented three potential amendments to the town’s Land Use Ordinance to the Planning Board this week and if enacted, some of those changes could potentially impact housing and development in Bar Harbor. “Excellent, just excellent,” Board Chair Millard Dority said before the discussion began. Code Enforcement … Continue reading Staff Brings Planning Board Potential Land Use Changes
Planning Board Hears Campground Employee Housing Proposal BAR HARBOR—Employee housing has taken a slightly different twist in Bar Harbor as the KOA Terramor Campground moves through the Bar Harbor Planning Board process to reconfigure its employee living spaces. The KOA Terramor Employee Campsite reconfiguration would take the current employee area at 1453 State Highway 102 and involves: 1. Remodeling three existing trailers, 2. Adding two … Continue reading Elevated Trailers: Housing in Bar Harbor
Planning Board Rules Two Subdivisions Complete, Continues Public Hearings BAR HARBOR—Town Planner Michele Gagnon continued her discussion of the recent development report during the Bar Harbor Planning Board’s October 5 meeting. A recent report conducted by Steve Whitman of Resilience Planning and Design LLC the same man who is working with the Comprehensive Plan Committee, called “An Examination of Bar Harbor’s Development Process” (September 15, … Continue reading EXAMINATION OF BAR HARBOR’S DEVELOPMENT PROCESS CONTINUES
