Land Use Ordinance Amendments proposed for November warrant

Land Use Ordinance amendments proposed for November 2024

For full text of each amendment and background information, see the Land Use Information page.

• LAND USE ORDINANCE AMENDMENT - Transient Lodging Accommodation Uses - This amendment would reduce the overall number of transient lodging accommodation uses from nineteen to seven, modify the standards related to lodging uses, and redefine each of the uses.
• LAND USE ORDINANCE AMENDMENT - Cruise Ship Disembarkation- This amendment would:
  • Repeal § 125-77 H., a citizen-initiated Land Use Ordinance amendment that passed November 8, 2022, which requires a written permit from the Code Enforcement Officer for the disembarkation of persons from cruise ships on, over, or across any property located within the Town of Bar Harbor.
  • Amend § 125-69 to allow the land use activity of cruise ship disembarkation subject to compliance with an ordinance governing cruise ship reservation and passenger disembarkation to be enacted by the Town Council and codified as Chapter 50.
  • Amend § 125-109 to define cruise ship disembarkation.
• LAND USE ORDINANCE AMENDMENT - Filing and Approval - This amendment would clarify that only amendments to shoreland zoning regulations need to be approved by the Commissioner of the Maine Department of Environmental Protection to be effective. And, it would remove the requirement to file the Land Use Ordinance with the Hancock County Registry of Deeds.
• LAND USE ORDINANCE AMENDMENT - Submissions - This amendment would change the number of hard copies to be submitted to the Appeals Board.

Town Council public hearings August 27, 2024 at 6:30 p.m. in the Municipal Building Council chambers.