by Kevin Miller Bangor Daily News news story PORTLAND, Maine â Justices with Maine’s highest court offered few clues Tuesday on where they stand on the complicated legal and regulatory battle over Plum Creek’s controversial rezoning proposal for nearly 1,000 houses and two resorts near Moosehead Lake. Attorneys on both sides were given roughly 15 Read More
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A Better Plan for Moosehead Lake is Possible
by Lisa Pohlmann, NRCM Executive Director Bangor Daily News op-ed In a victory for democracy, a Maine Superior Court judge recently sent Plum Creek’s massive development proposal for Maine’s Moosehead Lake region back to the Land Use Regulation Commission and provided the opportunity to work on a better plan. Seattle-based Plum Creek, a Real Estate Read More
A Better Plum Creek Project
Bangor Daily News editorial A Superior Court ruling sending Plum Creek’s controversial Moosehead Lake development project back to regulators offers a fresh opportunity to improve the plan. The Land Use Regulation Commission must ignore the loud and competing voices and help Plum Creek see the need to present a smaller, more environmentally sensitive proposal. Failing Read More
Judge Puts Plum Creek on Hold
A Superior Court ruling faults LURC commissioners and reorders hearings to reopen. by The Associated Press Portland Press Herald news story PORTLAND — A state judge on Thursday put a stop to Plum Creek Timber Co.’s sprawling resort and residential development in the Moosehead Lake region, citing missteps by the regulatory agency that gave approval Read More
Court Strikes Down Plum Creek Plan, Saying LURC Violated Its Own Rules
by Kevin Miller Bangor Daily News news story AUGUSTA, Maine — A Maine judge on Thursday halted Plum Creek’s rezoning plan for the Moosehead Lake region and ordered regulators to reopen hearings on one of the largest and most controversial development proposals in state history. Maine Superior Court Justice Thomas Humphrey did not comment on Read More
Court Vacates LURC Approval of Plum Creek Development Plan
MPBN news story Maine Superior Court Justice Thomas Humphrey ruled that the Land Use Regulation Commission failed to follow a legal process when it approved the massive Moosehead Lake development in 2009. A Superior Court judge has struck down Maine land regulators approval of Plum Creek’s massive development proposal for the Moosehead Lake region. Chief Read More
Maine Judge Throws Out LURC’s Approval of Plum Creek Development
by Keith Shortill MPBN radio news story A Maine judge has rejected the state’s zoning approval of Plum Creek Timber Co.’s sprawling resort and residential development at the gateway to Maine’s north woods near Moosehead Lake. The superior Court judge agreed with several environmental groups, which claimed that the process used by the Land Use Read More
Judge Stops Development of 17,000 Acres in Northern Maine
WGME TV news story A Maine Superior Court Judge overturned a decision Thursday that would have allowed Plum Creek to turn thousands of acres of land in northern Maine into residential units and resorts. Justice Thomas Humphrey ruled that the decision, made by the Maine Land Use Regulation Commission in 2009, had essentially violated the Read More
Court Strikes Down Plum Creek Plan
Statement by NRCM Executive Director Lisa Pohlmann We are pleased and gratified by the Superior Court’s decision today to strike down the Land Use Regulation Commission’s approval of Plum Creek’s massive development proposal for the Moosehead Lake region. The plan calls for 2,000 resort and vacation home units scattered around Moosehead Lake. In his ruling, Read More
