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Municipal Planning Assistance Program

Planning Data

Upon request from a town's comprehensive planning committee, we will collect and share certain state agency data that are appropriate and useful to towns undertaking a local comprehensive planning effort. Because we collect this information from a variety of state agencies and do so only twice a year, towns should be certain to get on our resource package list in advance of needing the data. Our practice is to issue each town's resource package no more than 18 months. If your community is interested, or if you need additional information on Comprehensive Planning Data Sets, please contact Tom Miragliuolo or one of the other members our program staff.

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Fall 2012

Data needed for all municipalities

Specific municipal data (.zip files vary from 17MB to 60MB)

Other Data Sets

The Municipal Planning Assistance Program has compiled hundreds of resource packages for communities. See a list of communities that have received MPAP resource packages and when their packages were last provided.

Additional Planning Data

Demographic and Economic Information

Maine has 22 cities, 433 towns, 34 plantations, 3 Indian reservations and 423 unorganized townships.
State of the Cities Data Systems - Provides a wide variety of demographic and economic data, including building permit and public finance data for individual Metropolitan Areas, Central Cities, and Suburbs. (US Department of Housing and Urban Development)

Geographic-Based Information (Geographic Information Systems)

Maine GIS Internet Mapping - Free public access to internet mapping applications hosted by the Maine Office of GIS.
Maine GIS Data Catalogue - Catalogue of available digital geographic data from the Maine Office of GIS.
Beginning with Habitat - The Beginning with Habitat initiative can create a series of maps showing the locations of valuable plant and animal habitats in your town.
Maine DEP Mapping - excellent data available to both GIS and Google Earth users.

Historic Maps

Historic U.S. Geological Survey Maps of Maine (University of New Hampshire Documents Department and Data Center)

Resources for Reducing Water Pollution

Maine's Department of Environmental Protection has produced numerous guides and handbooks for homeowners, commercial business owners, camp road associations, and anyone else wishing to reduce pollution in our waterbodies. The DEP has compiled many of these handbooks, for easy access, on their Manuals and Guides to Reduce Water Pollution webpage. The page includes a description of each publication, a small color photo of each publication cover, contact information, and links to electronic versions, if available.

State Review Consistency Status

In accordance with state statute (Title 30-A, §4347-A), DACF reviews comprehensive plans and growth management programs for consistency with the goals and guidelines of the Act. Municipalities voluntarily submit their comprehensive plans and growth management programs to DACF for review. As the lead agency, DACF coordinates its findings with the input of 10 other state agencies. Each agency, including DACF, reviews the comprehensive plan or growth management program for consistency with appropriate state and federal rules and regulations, as well as agency policies and programs. (DACF relies on the Comprehensive Plan Review Criteria Rule, Chapter 208 to guide the consistency review findings.)

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Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation & Forestry