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Coastal Community Planning

The Maine Coastal Program works with partners to encourage sound planning and smart growth strategies in the coastal zone.

Specific programs include:

  • Maine State Planning Office Land Use Planning Program: promotes smart growth strategies in Maine, including providing assistance to municipalities in managing growth.
  • Regional Challenge Grants: provides non-competitive grants to support promising regional initiatives designed to establish new mechanisms for managing governmental affairs more efficiently while integrating transportation, and land use management more effectively, consistent with smart growth principles.
  • Municipal Code Enforcement and Training Program: a formal training program for municipal code officials.
  • Docks and Piers Guidance: planning guidelines and best management practices from the Maine Department of Environmental Protection.
  • Scenic Resource Guidance: guide for using the State Planning Office’s scenic inventory methodology to identify, evaluate, and document scenic resources and to identify scenic viewpoints of state or national significance for purposes of Title 35-A MRSA Ch. 34-A (Wind Power Law).