Research snapshot · Development · 31 August 2026

Self storage ban across the country: 5 towns on the record, the pace easing

This page is a snapshot, cut 31 August 2026, of a topic that moves. Below is the shape of the movement, read from the towns' own meeting records, and the way to get a view of it that stays current.

Snapshot taken 31 August 2026, based on 13 dated municipal records flagged as self storage ban, spanning 5 municipalities across 4 states. The topic moves; a later cut supersedes this page.

ScopeAcross the countryMaine

What this page is for one topic at state or national scope, told as a story: how it arrived, the shape of its movement, a dated snapshot of a moving record, and the door to a view of it that stays current. If it does not, write to us; that is what changes the next edition.

The story so far

The record starts in Colorado, 9 December 2022. Since then 5 municipalities in 4 states have put the topic on a meeting record, at very different speeds: Maine, Colorado, Connecticut hold 92% of the dated events between them.

The last 90 days put 0 meetings on the record, well down from 6 in the 90 days before.

It runs through the rooms where budgets and ordinances are made: Community Development Committee, Town Council and Planning Board.

The shape of the movement

Dated meetings on the record at this scope, quarter by quarter, and the same 90-day count as a rolling line, whose right-hand point is that number. Counts of documents, never a reading of what they decided.
QuarterMeetingsTownsStates
Sep 2025 to Nov 2025221
Dec 2025 to Feb 2026322
Mar 2026 to May 2026622
Jun 2026 to Aug 2026 (current)000

a rolling 90-day total, so the right-hand point is that same 90-day count. The busiest stretch was Mar 2026 to May 2026, with 6 meetings.

Where it is moving4 states

The same topic at different speeds in different states. A state's name opens its own page where one exists.
StateTowns on the recordMeetings, 90 daysLatest
Maine lighter read202026-04-13
Colorado lighter read102022-12-09
Connecticut lighter read102026-01-27
New Hampshire lighter read102026-04-14

From the record

The most recent documents behind this page, one per town. Each link opens the town's own file.

14 April 2026 · Belmont, New Hampshire

the document, on the town's own site ARCMinutes250220

13 April 2026 · Falmouth, Maine Town Council

the document, on the town's own site PB MRA Hearing_MUC_Self Storage_APR2026.pdf

27 January 2026 · Danbury, Connecticut

the agenda, on the town's own site AgendaCenter agenda

17 November 2025 · Caribou, Maine Planning Board

the agenda, on the town's own site Agenda/Packet

Companies on this record29 companies, 7 documents

Named in the same documents that carry this topic, read from the record itself: the firms designing, building and advising the work, each with where the record places them:
CBPC Holdings LLCFalmouth
Clapboard Island Family LLCFalmouth
Eric & Shannon JohannessenFalmouth
Golf Traditions IncFalmouth
NDVH Maine Realty LLCFalmouth
Philip & Cynthia TherrienFalmouth
AMERCIAN GREETINGS CORPORATIONCaribou
Aroostook Renewables, LLC.Caribou
Aunt Maggie’s Farm Medical Marijuana CaregiversCaribou
C.S. MANAGEMENT, INC.Caribou
CARIBOU MANAGEMENT COMPANY LLCCaribou
COUNTY PHYSICAL THERAPY, LLC.Caribou
Daughters International Self StorageCaribou
DOLLAR TREE STORES, INC.Caribou
Eastgate Park, LLCBelmont
Foreside FIT, LLCFalmouth
G.F. MARKETING, INC.Caribou
GAGNON'S RENTAL PROPERTIES, LLCCaribou
H&D ENTERPRISES, LLC.Caribou
Horizons Engineering, Inc.Belmont
JLD PROPERTIES, LLCCaribou
Justin M. Fletcher Inc.Falmouth
OceanViewFalmouth
Patrick & Katherine DalyFalmouth
St. Clair AssociatesFalmouth
Sun Lake Village Docks, LLCBelmont
Sun Lake Village Homeowners Assoc.Belmont
WestCOGDanbury
Winnipesaukee River Basin Program (WRBP)Belmont

The documents naming each, and the threads they sit in, are the account view. If one of these is you, those are your projects on the record. Ask and we will show you every one, and the towns around them, as they move.

A snapshot of a moving record

Everything above is frozen at 31 August 2026; the topic is not. 1 more events on this topic carry no usable date and are counted, never dated. The counts follow where we read most: a town or a state absent here was not read at depth, and absence is not evidence the topic is absent there. A lighter-read state is not a ceiling; where you care about a region, pointing the system there is the first thing an account changes. How coverage is built, and its known limits: municipalalpha.com/methodology.

How we can tell you about it ongoing

We track this topic continuously; this page is one cut of it, taken 31 August 2026. An account turns the snapshot into a working view: every town and every document behind these counts, the thread on each matter as it develops, word of new meetings as they land on the record, your own states and topics side by side, and the data itself when you want it in a table. The towns above are the taste; what each is actually deciding, funding or stalling is the read an account carries.

Each state's name above opens its own page. Counts and dates are computed from the documents on the record; the topic and its definition are ours. This page carries no subscriber content.

Self storage ban, across the country

from the towns' own meeting records

Scope

Across the country

Area

Development

every topic in this area

Towns on the record

5

with a dated document on this topic

States on the record

4

counted from the record

Earliest

9 December 2022

the documents' dates

Meetings, last 90 days

0 against 6 before

dated documents

Snapshot cut

31 August 2026

this page's date

A view that stays current

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