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Local Planning Resources
Affordable Housing:
Agriculture:
- Maine Farmland preservation ordinances
- Powerpoint presentation on farmland protection tools, Fred Snow, KVCOG, 2010 (PDF 1.2MB)
 New Guide for Towns Working to Encourage Local Farming: A new guide by Maine Farmland Trust and American Farmland Trust provides specific examples and suggestions of what local officials and residents can do to support farming in their communities.
The newly published guide, Cultivating Maine’s Agricultural Future, describes some of what’s been done in many Maine communitie including Unity, Turner, Cape Elizabeth, Monmouth, and Bowdoinham. Beyond this, the guide provides a set of tools from which a town can chose those best suited to its circumstances and situation.
- Why Municipalities Should Support Local Farms article from October 2009 Maine Townsman (PDF 813KB)
Brownfields
Capital Improvement Program
Developing a Capital Improvement Program prepared by the Greater Portland Council of Governments is a how to guide written for public officials to assist in planning for capital improvements of public facilities. (PDF 1.3MB)
Climate Change
Conservation
- Home Rules, Home Tools: Locally Led Conservation Achievements. Case studies describing successful conservation commission achievements in our state.
- Conservation blueprint:
A Guidebook for protecting place and prosperity in Arrowsic, Bath, Bowdoin, Bowdoinham, Brunswick, Georgetown, Harpswell, Phippsburg, Richmond, Topsham, West Bath and Woolwich (PDF 653KB)
Form Based Codes
Municipal Ordinances Information
- Adult Entertainment Establishments (PDF 86KB)
- Density
Transfer Fee: A Fee in Lieu of a Transfer of Development
Rights (TDR) Program
- Frequently Asked Questions
about the 2003 Ordinance Deadline (30-A MRSA, section
4314(3)) (PDF 104KB)
- Introduction to Transfer
of Development Rights Programs, November 2002 (PDF
74KB)
- Low impact developmemt presentation, KVCOG, 2010 (PDF 7.7MB). KVCOG LID Model Ordinance (Microsoft Word 121KB, PDF 133KB)
- Maine Model Wind Energy Facility Ordinance offering a comprehensive wind energy facility review process and standards for voluntary adoption by Maine municipalities (Microsoft Word 242KB, PDF 200KB)
- Model
Subdivision Ordinance, hosted by the Southern Maine
Regional Planning Commission
- Subdivision law introduction presentation, May 2011 (Powerpoint 100KB, PDF 91KB)
- Subdivision & Petroleum Don’t Mix article by George Seel, Bureau of Remediation & Waste Management, DEP. Discusses the location of subdivision (PDF 384KB)
- Open Space Subdivision presentation, Kennebec Valley Council of Governments, 2010 (PDF 8.1MB)
- Open Space Subdivision Ordinance, Kennebec Valley Council of Governments (2009)
With Commentary (Microsoft Word 549KB, PDF 349KB)
Without Commentary
(Microsoft Word 439KB, PDF 145KB)
- Site Plan Review Handbook:
A Guide to Developing A Site Plan Review System
- Personal Wireless
Facilities Siting Ordinances
- Zoning Ordinance Review Submission Form (PDF 64KB; Microsoft
Word 14KB)
Service Centers
Smart Growth & Sprawl
- Maine Sensible Transportation Handbook, June 2008
- Creating Traditional, Walkable Neighborhoods: A Handbook for Maine Communities, July 2009 (PDF 2.4MB)
- Chronology
and Summary of Maine Legislative Activity related to
Smart Growth, Sprawl, and Growth Management Initiatives
(1999 - 2002), October 2002 (PDF 116KB)
- The Competitive
Advantage: Three Year Smart Growth Action Plan (PDF
125KB)
- Great American Neighborhood
Description
- Markets
for Traditional Neighborhoods, August 1999 (PDF 88KB).
- Why Households
Move: Two Maine Surveys, June 1999 (PDF 921KB).
- The Cost of Sprawl,
May 1997 (PDF 75KB)
- Speech to the Northern New England Chapter
of the American Planning Association (NNECAPA), 1999 (PDF 57KB)
- "Maine Smart Growth Activities" Speech Presented at the National Governors Conference Center for
Best Practices, 1998 (PDF 36KB)
Wind Energy
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