Due to the elections, there will be no DPAC meeting on November 2.  Don't forget to vote!

The next DPAC meeting will be on Tuesday, November 16 at 6:30 p.m. at the Municipal Building on School Street. The meeting is open to the public and we welcome your participation.

Paul Dreher and Trisha Sears from Newport, Vermont led an exercise on Form Based Codes in Downtown Damariscotta last week.  Newport has developed form based codes in a very participatory process involving the entire community in decisions about what should go into the code. 

In the field exercise, people were asked to identify things in the downtown that were part of the fabric of downtown--doorways, window heights, amount of glass, distance between doorways and anything else they noticed that makes Damariscotta the place it is. They later worked on writing the elements of a code to replicate that. The exercise and two additional meetings helped everyone understand more about what Form Based codes might do for Damariscotta. 

View the Video here.

Next Steps

Over the next few months, the townspeople and consultant Robert Orr will be working together to develop a revised code for downtown, Route 1B and the Piper Common areas of Damariscotta. DPAC will help to steward this process and ensure that everyone is involved and stays informed along the way. Stay tuned!