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Shoreland and flood across Maine

What this decidesWhat can be built or rebuilt near the water, and whether a map or a setback is changing.

Shoreland zoning, floodplain standards and map adoption, setbacks from water, and the rebuilding and expansion rights of existing structures near the shore.Our definition of the class.

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27
towns on the record
37
events on the record
5
in the last 90 days

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 27 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 record27 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.
Hope1 event1 in 90 daysnew on the recordlatest 2026-08-06, Select Board — Documents for 06.23.26 SB Meeting
Falmouth9 events1 in 90 dayslatest 2026-08-10, Council Work Plan Priorities FY26-27.pdf
Brunswick2 events1 in 90 daysnew on the recordlatest 2026-09-06, Planning_Board_Agenda_08252026.pdf
Jefferson2 events1 in 90 days ▬ +0.0%latest 2026-08-20, PB August Agenda
Hancock1 event1 in 90 daysnew on the recordlatest 2026-08-10, 20260715140700915
Eliot3 events0 in 90 dayslatest 2026-08-07, Agenda center file Board of Appeals Regular Meetin
Wiscasset1 event0 in 90 dayslatest 2026-08-07, Minutes — Planning Board
Augusta5 events0 in 90 dayslatest 2026-08-31, 09 25 2025 Informational Meeting 1758633677
Cape Elizabeth0 events0 in 90 dayslatest 2026-03-02, Climate Action Plan
Caribou1 event0 in 90 dayslatest 2026-02-26, Agenda
Kennebunk2 events0 in 90 dayslatest 2026-08-05, AgendaCenter agenda
Kittery2 events0 in 90 dayslatest 2026-09-07, AgendaCenter agenda
Presque Isle1 event0 in 90 dayslatest 2026-08-09, ORDINANCE INDEX
Saco2 events0 in 90 dayslatest 2026-09-06, Open Space Training 10.15.25.pdf
Acton1 event0 in 90 dayslatest 2026-08-05, Warrant FY26-27
Belgrade0 events0 in 90 dayslatest 2026-05-10, april_7_revision_june_town_meeting_warrant_draft.p
Canaan0 events0 in 90 dayslatest 2026-04-21, Electrical Installation Form
Cumberland1 event0 in 90 dayslatest 2026-02-25, January 2026 Building Permits (PDF)
Gorham0 events0 in 90 dayslatest 2026-02-23, Shoreland Zoning Map
Lewiston0 events0 in 90 dayslatest 2026-08-31, CityZoning_2017_01
Madawaska0 events0 in 90 dayslatest 2026-08-14, Agenda
Naples0 events0 in 90 dayslatest 2026-04-10, PB Agenda(4)
Orono1 event0 in 90 dayslatest 2026-03-05, Penobscot Climate Action Survey 2 Paper Version
Pittston0 events0 in 90 dayslatest 2026-09-02, Download
Rangeley1 event0 in 90 dayslatest 2025-09-16, Chapter 38 Zoning - amended 09.16.25
Rockport0 events0 in 90 dayslatest 2026-04-24, 2026.03.26 PB Minutes DRAFT
Winthrop1 event0 in 90 dayslatest 2026-01-05, Packet PDF

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: surveyors and coastal engineering firms (map adoption and setback disputes are settled with survey and design work).

Likely affected: waterfront property developers; owners of nonconforming shorefront structures (expansion and rebuilding rights turn on the standard in force when they apply).

Worth watching: marine and site-work contractors; property insurers writing flood risk (map adoption changes rating and what coverage is required).

One scope up

The same class at a wider scope: Shoreland and flood in Maine · Shoreland and flood in New Hampshire · Shoreland and flood in Massachusetts · Shoreland and flood in Vermont · Shoreland and flood in Connecticut · Shoreland and flood across the country.

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