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Published
March 13, 2023

Maine Voices: Keep your eyes on Munjoy South – it faces a real threat

This complex and its 140 affordable units are too important to allow the termination or aggressive reinterpretation of the covenants that enable a wide range of people to live there.
Published
March 11, 2023

Maine Voices: Proposed project will be a change for the better in Bayside

Speak up Tuesday in favor of a mixed-use walkable neighborhood that includes about 200 units of much-needed affordable housing near parks, trails, schools, supermarkets and more.
Published
March 9, 2023

Maine Voices: Speak up early and often about 800-unit Bayside development

There are a lot of justifiable concerns about the proposal; Tuesday’s Planning Board meeting is a good place to air them.
Published
February 21, 2023

Freeport board puts off vote on controversial apartment project

With a mostly favorable opinion of the overall project proposed for Main Street, the Project Review Board requests some exterior and landscaping changes and the developer says those changes will be addressed.
Published
February 20, 2023

Maine Voices: South Portland’s shipyard waterfront should be vividly reimagined

The towers and parking lots of the proposed Yard South development do not belong next to Bug Light. What does? The sky’s the limit.

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Published
January 28, 2023

Commentary: Maine’s housing crisis requires urgent action, and we’re ready to get to work

The Joint Select Committee on Housing has a three-pronged mission: helping people without homes; preserving and producing more housing, and improving land use and development processes.
Published
January 15, 2023

Maine Voices: In housing as elsewhere, central planning is no substitute for local control

The density-focused zoning legislation passed last year offered an unsettling preview of the direction we’re headed in.
Published
January 6, 2023

Maine Voices: Soaring tower development all wrong for South Portland

It defies reason that our city would consider corrupting its shipyard zoning to allow 180-foot residential towers near our harbor shore.
Published
December 19, 2022

Maine Voices: Roux campus risks being a Trojan horse for development

Northeastern University’s Roux Institute needs a permanent home in Portland. Does it need an adjacent hotel, stores, bars and restaurants? I’d argue no.
Published
October 12, 2022

Brunswick residents wary of Bowdoin College’s proposed athletics field upgrades

The Brunswick Planning Board approved Bowdoin College's sketch plan for significant upgrades to its Pickard Field athletic complex Tuesday night, but neighbors pushed back with concerns about light, noise and chemical pollution.