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.