Recent comments in /f/Maine

baxterstate t1_j59ua48 wrote

Maine will have to go to all towns near to urban areas and change the zoning to accommodate more housing, particularly multi family housing.

As an example, in North Yarmouth you should be able to build 4-5 two family homes on an acre lot. Instead, right now, you can only have one single family home on a 3 acre lot.

That is absurd. Three acres isn’t enough for a working farm anyway, so why waste acreage and prevent any attempt to address the housing and apartment shortage?

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Shake-Spear4666 OP t1_j59qvcd wrote

Quote from the article:

MaineHousing says a decade of not building enough homes and apartments only made the homeless crisis worse.

"And that's how we're going to get out of this long-term, is to just keep building more," Brennan said.

He says we'll need at least 1,000 apartments built each year over the next 10 years, and hundreds of new homes, to meet the housing need in Maine.”

                      Fuck.
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coolcalmaesop t1_j59qjui wrote

This opened a drive account with folders to different towns. I had recently been looking at my hometown’s historical society Facebook and the photos in that drive folder were some I’ve never seen before. So cool!

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