REMINDER – Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation, and Forestry/DACF will be accepting public comments on the Draft Blue Hill Comprehensive Plan through 7/26/2024, that an electronic copy is available online at maine.gov/dacf/municipalplanning/comp_plans, and that a hard copy is available for review at the Town Hall.
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As a reminder, the Comprehensive Plan Committee is holding a public meeting to discuss all things water in Blue Hill—preservation of drinking water resources, access to fresh and salt water, the Town wharves, and more!
Attached are the approved minutes from the July 20 Comprehensive Plan Committee meeting.
The meeting included discussion of the draft goals, objectives, and strategies for the Water Resources and Marine Resources chapters.
Attached are the approved minutes from the June 29 Comprehensive Plan Committee meeting.
The meeting included discussion of the ongoing efforts to engage with a broad and representative group of community members and a review of the draft goals, objectives, and strategies for the Housing and Economy chapters.
Attached are the approved minutes from the May 18 Comprehensive Plan Committee meeting. The meeting included discussion of the process for reviewing the various chapter drafts and the Committee’s efforts to maximize community engagement and feedback on the plan as it takes shape (including survey responses, sessions to discuss the chapter topic areas, and more general sessions—both large and small—to obtain community feedback on how the Town might develop over the next decade.
There were a gratifying number of respondents taking the Comprehensive Plan community survey just before the official July 31 deadline, so we’ve decided to keep the survey open through this Sunday, August 6.
This will be important input into the Town’s comprehensive plan and will also provide interesting insights about the priorities and perspectives of your neighbors.
Continue reading “Last Chance for Comp Plan Survey!”Attached are the approved minutes from the May 4 Comprehensive Plan Committee meeting. In addition to its regular business, the Committee heard comments from the Historic [Blue Hill] District Working Group as they described their goals for the area.
The Blue Hill Comprehensive Plan Committee will host a community discussion focused on three areas of the comprehensive plan at the Farmhouse Inn, Blue Hill, on Tuesday, May 23 from 5 to 7 pm.
This event, one of several planned, will be an opportunity for Blue Hill residents and business owners to contribute their comments, knowledge and ideas on how the comprehensive plan could help respond to the needs of the Blue Hill community.
The conversation at this event will focus on three specific areas: housing, economy and population. Discussions will focus on steps to improve the housing and economic needs in our area, and the kinds of policies that might help reach those goals. Future events will cover other areas of the plan, including natural and marine resources, climate change and land use. All business owners and Blue Hill residents are encouraged to participate in all of these discussions.
Having a state-approved comprehensive plan is a threshold requirement for an increasing number of state grants and programs. Without a comprehensive plan, developed to state standards, Blue Hill may lose funding opportunities. These are parts of the plan that are required to be addressed per the guidelines in order for the State of Maine and the Blue Hill community to pass the plan.
Everyone is invited to attend. For more information about this work, see the comprehensive plan page at bluehillme.gov or contact any committee member.
Attached are the approved minutes from the April 20 Comprehensive Plan Committee meeting. The Committee discussed, among other things, the status of initial drafts of the Plan chapters, the Committee’s community outreach/engagement activities, and the number of residents (and others) taking the survey.