This page is a snapshot, cut 13 September 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.
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Snapshot taken 13 September 2026, based on 279 dated municipal records flagged as zoning and site plan in Maine, spanning 78 municipalities. The topic moves; a later cut supersedes this page.
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.
Source documents 3 of 19 on this page link straight to the town's own record. The rest are available on request. Ask for access.
The record starts in Lewiston, 1 May 1947. Since then 78 Maine towns have put the topic on a meeting record, the newest of them Monmouth on 10 September 2026.
The last 90 days put 37 meetings on the record, up from 34 in the 90 days before. 1 more is already on posted agendas.
It runs through the rooms where budgets and ordinances are made: Planning Board, Town Council and City Council.
| Quarter | Meetings | Towns |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 2025 to Nov 2025 | 20 | 9 |
| Dec 2025 to Feb 2026 | 66 | 34 |
| Mar 2026 to May 2026 | 37 | 21 |
| Jun 2026 to Sep 2026 (current) | 37 | 20 |
a rolling 90-day total, so the right-hand point is that same 90-day count. The busiest stretch was Dec 2025 to Feb 2026, with 66 meetings.
And 63 more towns on the record, in an account view.
10 September 2026 · Monmouth Unknown
the agenda, on the town's own site PB_Agenda_09.10.2026.pdf
9 September 2026 · Lincoln
the document, on the town's own site Council_Packet_September_FY2027
3 September 2026 · Wilton
the agenda, on the town's own site Planning-Board-Agenda-09-03-2026
2 September 2026 · Falmouth Community Development Committee
the document, on the town's own site Copy of FINAL 26.27 Work Plan List_CDC.pdf
And 485 more companies.
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.
Everything above is frozen at 13 September 2026; the topic is not. 149 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.
We track this topic continuously; this page is one cut of it, taken 13 September 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.
Also at this scope: Zoning and site plan across the country. Counts and dates are computed from the documents on the record; the topic and its definition are ours. This page carries no subscriber content.
Towns on the record
78
Earliest
1 May 1947
Meetings, last 90 days
37 against 34 before
Snapshot cut
13 September 2026
A view that stays current