Thank you for your thorough coverage of issues like this. MDI does need housing. One learns so much from an article like this. Five houses on 180 acres that need an access road are going to be expensive. Blame the long-eared bat. Or maybe we should praise the bat for helping to preserve our wetlands and the intangible benefits we derive from them. it is amazing to see that over a third of Bar Harbor's existing housing is owned by non-residents. The figure is probably higher for other towns. Those non-resident dwellings have an impact on the housing supply as much as do the long-eared bats.
Thank you for your thorough coverage of issues like this. MDI does need housing. One learns so much from an article like this. Five houses on 180 acres that need an access road are going to be expensive. Blame the long-eared bat. Or maybe we should praise the bat for helping to preserve our wetlands and the intangible benefits we derive from them. it is amazing to see that over a third of Bar Harbor's existing housing is owned by non-residents. The figure is probably higher for other towns. Those non-resident dwellings have an impact on the housing supply as much as do the long-eared bats.