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Livable Landscapes: By Chance or By Choice?
DPAC will be hosting the showing of "Livable Landscapes: By Chance or By Choice?", an award winning video that explores the connection between landscape and community in Northern New England, focusing on how growth and sprawl affect quality of life.
Watch Livable Landscapes on October 19 at 1pm at Spectrum Generations and join in an exploration of five communities struggling with choices about transformations that are underway while at the same time trying to preserve the qualities that make them unique. |
Form Based Codes - Are they Right for Damariscotta?
Dreher | There will be a special presentation on Form Based Codes on Monday, October 25, beginning at 6:00 p.m. with refreshmentsat the Mobius Community Center. Mr. Paul Dreher, Zoning Administrator for Newport, Vermont, and Ms. Patricia Sears, Executive Director of the Newport City Renaissance Corporation, will discuss their community's Form Based Codes and what the zoning amendments have meant to their town.
Sears |
Like Damariscotta, Newport is a small waterfront town settled in the 1700's, with many of its historical buildings still in use today. As a small town with a population of 5000, a number citizens shared concerns regarding zoning amendments and how they would affect future development. Newport City provides an excellent example of a how a small city--facing many of the same challenges as Damariscotta--came together to steer the course for its future development.
Dreher and Sears will outline the process used in establishing their city's new codes and in revitalizing their downtown, and how a form based code works for them. Learn from the first hand experience of others in charting the course for community-driven code amendments to help decide if form based codes might be right to direct Damariscotta's future.
DPAC encourages your participation in the October 25th discussion to see how it has been implemented in a similar New England town, and to have your questions answered. The discussion will be held at the Mobius Community Center (on Route 1B across from Yellowfront Grocery Store). Light refreshments will be served at 6:00 p.m., and the discussion will begin at 6:30.
A follow-up meeting is scheduled for the morning of October 26 at 9 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. at the Damariscotta Municipal Building on School Street to provide additional opportunities for people to speak with Mr. Dreher and Ms. Sears. |
Join in a Community Conversation about the future of Damariscotta, the history of growth and development and plans for the future. Following a presentation by DPAC members to start the
conversation and update everyone on 
recent proposals and ideas for proposed zoning amendments, 
there will be ample time to discuss your ideas and get your questions asked and answered about future development, zoning amendments and 
planning in Damariscotta. Come to the Community Conversation, Monday, October 18 at 6:30 p.m. (refreshments at 6 p.m.) at the Mobius Community Room.