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Maine Voices: In housing as elsewhere, central planning is no substitute for local control

Por: Portland Press Herald Opinion January 15, 2023

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Each time I have moved in Maine, I have chosen multifamily living, or used the town’s existing accessory dwelling unit ordinance to create it. I’m surprised that people forgo the benefits simply because they don’t like the idea of sharing “their” space with another unit. Their loss, I say. My loss, they might say. Keeley Crane Service lowers the second half of an accessory dwelling unit, or ADU, to its foundation in Topsham in 2021.... + full article



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