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Bangor planners preview land-development code changes to meet new state housing laws
Summary
Planning staff told the Business & Economic Development Committee they will bring draft ordinance language next month to conform local rules to three recent state laws that expand ADUs, relax parking rules and allow residential use in commercial zones.
Anya Colette, the city’s planning officer, told the Bangor Business & Economic Development Committee on the meeting that staff are preparing ordinance changes to align the city’s land development code with three recently passed state laws (LD 1829, LD 04/27 and LD 997).
Colette said LD 1829 will require allowing accessory dwelling units on both single-family and multi-family lots and will increase density allowances (for example, requiring local codes to allow up to four units on a 5,000-square-foot lot inside the growth boundary). “We are still waiting on rulemaking for these 3 laws,” Colette said, and staff plan to present…
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