Did I Fall Down The Rabbit Hole Into A Dystopian World Or Is This Really Real?

Greed and the real estate boom in Boothbay Maine and an endangered water supply

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I was recently in an online dialogue in my local community where I encountered a developer willfully oblivious to the warnings from the state and the town water department concerning the danger posed by further development to Boothbay’s two water supplies.

The warnings came in five years ago when the development on the peninsula was already occurring at a faster than average pace and before the Botanical Gardens built a parking lot in the watershed and the Country Club developer finagled a dysfunctional rearrangement of roads in the center of town to his advantage.

The developer whom I shall call Howard, though it is not his name, expressed his vision for quadrupling the density of the village of East Boothbay, where Andersen Design’s production and home were located from 1958 to 2017.

Said by “Howard”: Low income housing should focus on rental units and cluster units like townhouses. An…