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Some updates and construction photos (although it's hard to tell which buildings are pictured) in today's Sunday Telegram: https://www.pressherald.com/2024/11/17/in-a-region-known-for-quaint-downtowns-a-community-without-one-builds-from-scratch/

Portland has a new zoning code and zoning map: https://www.pressherald.com/2024/11/04/portland-council-approves-recode-zoning-ordinance/ ReCode passed unanimously, with several minor amendments from individual City Councilors – some of those amendments were syntactical amendments to improve...

The City Council already approved 4-family homes for the entire city last year – it wasn't controversial. A new state law basically requires cities and towns to allow accessory dwelling units everywhere, so there hasn't been any "single-family" zoning anywhere in Maine for a few years now...

Totally agree that there are massive savings to be had from living car-free – a big reason my wife and I were able to afford to buy a home in Portland is because we're a one-car family, and thus we save over $12,000 a year on the costs of car payments, insurance, fuel, repairs, and all the...

What were the amendments @Cosakita18 ?

The "ReCode" re-draft of the city's zoning ordinance is coming up for a final vote at the Planning Board tonight. It also needs City Council approval next, but there's lots of good stuff in here so consider sending a quick message to planningboard@portlandmaine.gov if you like what you see...

I did some digging and I've come to the conclusion that a) it is a mileage marker and b) it's not pointing to the current Portland-Westbrook Municipal airport (PWM) in Stroudwater – it's pointing to the abandoned Portland Municipal Airport in Scarborough! The first clue is the direction of the...

The contractors hosted a neighborhood meeting on September 10th and presented their timeline for work: Link to presentation recording and slides: https://www.rouxcampusportland.org/updates

5K is averaged over the entire year – average weekday ridership is higher than that. Source: https://gpmetro.org/1625/Performance-Statistics Note that 2024 ridership is on track to ~almost~ match pre-pandemic ridership, which is pretty impressive compared to other transit agencies. Metro...

Uh, what? I don't disagree with your premise that Roux needs to build on-site housing, but have you ever ridden a city bus? Metro averages over 5,000 riders every day, and the new Roux campus is within walking distance of three routes – the 9A, 9B, and the 7 – that together offer direct...

Bath's public housing agency making some big moves: "With 17.28 acres to work with, Bath Housing plans to place up to 190 housing units on Congress Avenue." https://www.pressherald.com/2024/09/12/bath-nonprofit-plans-housing-project-to-reshape-congress-avenue/ Phase one, with 48 apartments...

Thank you. The PPD's violent constitutional violations are extremely well-documented – try googling "Nicholas Goodman wrongful death" – but we don't need to stray off topic here. I'll delete my previous post as well.

That was the case 7 years ago, but the traffic volumes cited above now justify a 3-lane cross section all the way from Commercial to Fox/Somerset (and as I noted, there's precedent: MaineDOT has already allowed similar road diets on busier streets, like Washington Avenue in East Deering). I've...

The traffic volumes have actually been on the decline for 20+ years – this trend was also observed when the city did the older Franklin Street redesign study way back in 2015. Daily traffic volumes on Franklin are actually pretty similar to the daily pre-pandemic volumes in the 2022 counts I...

That's quite an assertion – but it's false. Traffic engineers have already modeled the design and found that a 2-lane Franklin Street will function just as well as the poorly-designed 4-lane version, which wastes a dozen acres of valuable downtown real estate. If you at MaineDOT's new traffic...

Some nice new mixed-use infill (retail with 18 apartments above) located on Auburn's Main Street, next to the Androscoggin River: ` The project just had a groundbreaking ceremony: https://wgme.com/newsletter-daily/groundbreaking-ceremony-held-for-new-multi-use-building-in-auburn-maine-main-street

Some nice drone shots of the Wedgewood public housing construction progress from the Sun Journal:

It is a landbanked rail ROW, but won't likely ever be converted back to railroad use. The new interstate Tukey's Br. obliterated the Union Branch connection across Back Cove to East Deering, so it would require building a new RR alignment around the sewage treatment plant and a new bridge across...

Apologies if this has been discussed before, but as the T rolls out more truly physically-separated dedicated busways, like Columbus Ave., alongside the new frequent-service routes, I struggle to understand why the SL4/5 line on Washington St. and the SL1 through the airport deserve the same...

C. Michael Lewis did a lot of fanciful drawings like this one – I think it would be a stretch to call it a real proposal, more like wishful thinking. Looks like the date next to his signature (in the median of Marginal Way) was 2000, which would put it in the same era as the "New Vision For...