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| Help ensure adoption of a CLUP that protects the natural values of Maine's North Woods. |
- Background information on Maine's Comprehensive Land Use Plan (CLUP)
- Learn the facts about Maine's CLUP
- Read the full draft of the CLUP
Well funded would-be developers have already begun lobbying Maine’s Land Use Regulation Commission (LURC) to undermine protections currently in place for Maine’s treasured North Woods. These protections ensure people-powered recreation and quiet, remote, natural places.
These protections are in place through LURC’s Comprehensive Land Use Plan (CLUP), which will guide the future of Maine’s North Woods for the next decade. This is the plan against which LURC commissioners will measure development proposals, such as Plum Creek’s massive development scheme for the Moosehead region.
LURC is updating and revising the CLUP because pressures on Maine’s North Woods, the largest remaining undeveloped forest east of the Mississippi, have increased dramatically in the last 10 years yet decisions about developments are based on a land use plan written in 1997.
Times have changed. Most of Maine’s North Woods are now owned by out-of-state companies that answer only to their shareholders and quarterly profits.
Worse still, these corporations are fighting for loopholes that allow development to happen without review by LURC - all in an effort to make it is easier for them to build subdivisions in the North Woods that have been used by Mainers for generations. We owe it to our families – and to all of us who enjoy the North Woods – to stop these corporations.