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Housing density across Maine

What this decidesWhat can be built on a site, and whether the town is about to change it.

Rules setting how many units can be built on a lot and where: dimensional and lot-size standards, multifamily allowances, inclusionary requirements, and the comprehensive-plan work behind them.Our definition of the class.

Your own viewGet a custom report built for Housing densityThe form asks what your organization does, your territory, and which signals matter. Matt comes back with this record narrowed to the threads that touch your work.
43
towns on the record
111
events on the record
14
in the last 90 days
5
threads on the record

What this page is for one topic across Maine's municipalities on the public record: where it is moving, which towns carry it, the documents behind it. A subscriber sees it cut to their own towns and questions. If it does not, write to us; that is what changes the next edition.

Source documents 3 of 60 on this page link straight to the town's own record. The rest are available on request. Ask for access.

Where it is on the record43 towns, most movement first

Every town carrying this class on the record through 2026-09-07: events in the last 90 days against the 90 before, the same 90-day count as a rolling line, whose right-hand point is that number, the latest document.
Saco10 events2 in 90 daysnew on the recordlatest 2026-08-30, LRPC Discussion Presentation
Wiscasset5 events2 in 90 daysnew on the recordlatest 2026-08-11, Agenda — 2026-07-27
Lincoln2 events2 in 90 daysnew on the recordlatest 2026-08-06, Information-Packet-August-IMU-Ordinance-Amendment
Westbrook5 events1 in 90 daysnew on the recordlatest 2026-08-31, Staff Memo 09.01.2026
Auburn6 events1 in 90 days ▬ +0.0%latest 2026-08-25, City Committees — Minutes 5 12 26 Approved 6 16 26
Augusta8 events1 in 90 days ▬ +0.0%latest 2026-09-03, PB Memo 2026 03 24 LD1829 SecondUpdates Subdivisio
Falmouth3 events1 in 90 daysnew on the recordlatest 2026-09-02, CDC_Minutes_05.12.2026_DRAFT.pdf
Portland2 events1 in 90 daysnew on the recordlatest 2026-06-25, Special City Council Meeting 2 - August 24, 2026 a
Hermon1 event1 in 90 daysnew on the recordlatest 2026-09-02, Hermon Public Hearing Notice, BDN, Sept. 1
Scarborough1 event1 in 90 daysnew on the recordlatest 2026-08-31, Long Range Planning Committee - Jun 12 2026 — 2026
York1 event1 in 90 daysnew on the recordlatest 2026-08-05, AgendaCenter minutes
Bangor7 events0 in 90 dayslatest 2026-08-07, City Council Regular Meeting Agenda (PDF)
Eliot4 events0 in 90 dayslatest 2026-08-07, Planning Board Ordinance Subcommittee Meeting Plan
Bar Harbor8 events0 in 90 dayslatest 2026-08-07, Packet for February 17, 2026.
Winthrop5 events0 in 90 dayslatest 2026-08-07, Planning Board Meeting
Mount Desert2 events0 in 90 dayslatest 2026-08-07, LUZO Advisory Group Meeting- CANCELLED
Freeport2 events0 in 90 dayslatest 2026-08-07, Planning Board Meeting Agenda
Gorham2 events0 in 90 dayslatest 2026-08-06, Affordable Housing Committee Regular Meeting Agend
Cumberland8 events0 in 90 dayslatest 2026-07-01, Planning Board Agenda January 20, 2026
Yarmouth5 events0 in 90 dayslatest 2026-07-01, Planning Board — PB Workshop on Various Amendments
Belfast3 events0 in 90 dayslatest 2026-03-17, March 17, 2026
Biddeford3 events0 in 90 dayslatest 2026-09-06, City Council Meeting (Live) 2026-06-02 — City Coun
Brunswick2 events0 in 90 dayslatest 2026-09-06, 15. LD1829 Resolution.pdf
Caribou2 events0 in 90 dayslatest 2026-03-02, Packet
Durham1 event0 in 90 dayslatest 2026-08-30, Open
Kittery2 events0 in 90 dayslatest 2026-09-07, AgendaCenter agenda
Livermore Falls2 events0 in 90 dayslatest 2026-04-19, SB Minutes 10-21-25
Patten0 events0 in 90 dayslatest 2026-08-24, 6A5Fb0 539766D49C634380A40A28Cdc02E4354
Richmond1 event0 in 90 dayslatest 2025-09-29, Meeting Agenda
Rockland1 event0 in 90 dayslatest 2025-10-08, 2025-09-08 Housing Task Force Meeting Agenda
Bowdoinham1 event0 in 90 dayslatest 2026-03-12, Draft Planning Board Minutes (3-12-26)
Bridgton1 event0 in 90 dayslatest 2026-04-15, PBWA 2.19.26
Harpswell0 events0 in 90 dayslatest 2026-04-24, RFP Harpswell HOP Grant Consultant
Jay1 event0 in 90 dayslatest 2026-08-22, June 8, 2026
Kennebunk1 event0 in 90 dayslatest 2026-08-05, AgendaCenter agenda
Lewiston0 events0 in 90 dayslatest 2026-08-31, Article X
Limington0 events0 in 90 dayslatest 2026-04-10, Download
New Gloucester0 events0 in 90 dayslatest 2026-04-09, Agenda Packet 3 19 24 PB Public Hearing(1)
Pownal1 event0 in 90 dayslatest 2026-08-24, January 12, 2026 Minutes.pdf
Shapleigh0 events0 in 90 dayslatest 2026-08-14, Comprehensive Plan Survey
South Portland0 events0 in 90 dayslatest 2026-08-31, Zoning Text Amendment - City of South Portland - M
Turner1 event0 in 90 dayslatest 2026-04-10, pb minutes 01-17-24
Waterville1 event0 in 90 dayslatest 2026-02-23, Untitled

Threads on the record5 threads

Matters in this class that have come back to a board more than once: the title, the towns, the documents by their meeting date. Subscribers get each one read and written up as it moves.
Auburn Council weighs mobile home rent stabilization ordinanceLewiston and AuburnCity Council, Rent Stabilization Board
17 August City Council20 July City Council6 July City Council15 June City Council
Biddeford: Affordable housingBiddeford and SacoBudget Committee, Citizens' Advisory Committee, City Council, Planning Board
3 September Citizens' Advisory Committee1 September City Council1 September City Council26 August Citizens' Advisory Committee5 August Planning Board
Brunswick Planning Board weighs Golek Multifamily DevelopmentBrunswickHousing Committee, Planning Board
26 August Agenda23 June Packet9 June Packet
Housing Committee weighs Hope Acts funding requestPortlandCity Council, HHS and Public Safety Committee, Housing Committee, Housing and Economic Development Committee
24 August City Council21 July Housing & Economic Development Committee14 July HHS and Public Safety Committee
South Portland to update Zoning for housingSouth PortlandCity Council, Planning Board
1 September City Council4 August City Council

Who this typically touches

Business types a matter in this class typically reaches. Our inference from the class, not the record's words; a specific organization is named on these pages only when the record itself names it.

Likely to gain: homebuilders and residential developers (density changes set what can be built where); modular and manufactured-home builders; land use counsel and planning consultants (a density rewrite is a contracted planning engagement).

Worth watching: multifamily investors and their lenders (allowed density sets the unit count a project can carry).

One scope up

The same class at a wider scope: Housing density in Maine · Housing density in New Hampshire · Housing density in Massachusetts · Housing density in Vermont · Housing density in Connecticut · Housing density in California · Housing density across the country.

The site's story: The Housing Density Wave Is Rewriting Municipal Zoning in Real Time.

Counts and dates are taken from the documents on the record in this window. The class and its definition are ours.