Enter the Hegemony

The State steps up its plan to implement its new municipal ordinances.

What is left of nature for the local residents of an Airbnb State? The sky? in a Home Rule State? Simon Lee Unsplash

Business as usual

Lincoln County Regional Planning Commission will likely receive a completed county-wide housing study by early 2023. On Aug. 16, commissioners authorized LCRPC to negotiate with Camion Associates of Saratoga Springs, New York for a study. Camion is an economic research organization with offices in Portland. In 2017, Camion produced a housing study for the Boothbay-Boothbay Harbor Joint Economic Development Committee. The Boothbay Register August 18

Why is a remote consulting firm doing a study of our local community?

Because LD 2003 provides for a grant for Municipal Planning Assistance Grant and Incentive Program Fund to hire consultants and staff for the purpose of administering the new State municipal ordinances.

Since 1968 when Maine constitutionally became a Home Rule state, the Maine Legislature has been fudging the language and overriding the in…