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Bangor staff outlines major land-use changes to comply with new state housing rules, including ADU, density and tiny‑home provisions
Summary
Planning staff presented a first-round package of draft edits to bring Bangors land development code into alignment with state housing rulemaking, including allowing ADUs on 1to3-unit lots, four-unit allowances in some URD zones, tiny-home lot-size options, and new minor site-plan review thresholds for small parking lots.
Planning staff on Feb. 17 presented a detailed first round of proposed amendments to Bangors land development code intended to implement new state housing rulemaking and to clarify local rules for missing-middle and affordable housing.
Planning Officer Anya Collette described a multi-part draft that moves certain affordable housing definitions to the general definitions section, adds provisions from state law allowing increased height and reduced parking for qualifying affordable-housing projects, and tightens verification requirements (for example, showing sewer and water capacity and an executed long-term affordability covenant). "They would have to execute a covenant with the city... it would have to be recorded at the registry of deeds," Collette said, adding that…
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