Monday, May 21, 2012
The Associated Press
AUGUSTA — A Maine environmental advocacy group is urging legislators to not weaken the powers of a regulatory agency that oversees the state's vast Unorganized Territory.
WHAT IS THE UT?
The Unorganized Territory of Maine – the UT – is the area having no local, incorporated municipal government.
The UT consists of over 400 townships, plus many coastal islands that don't lie within municipal bounds. The UT land area is slightly over one half the area of the entire state. Year-round residents number about 9,000, with many more people living there seasonally.
– Source: Maine Revenue Services
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Environment Maine today delivered 17,000 letters, postcards, petitions and emails from Maine residents to the State House in opposition to proposed legislation it says would weaken the scope and power of the Land Use Regulation Commission. The commission regulates development in the 10-million-acre region.
A public hearing on the bills is scheduled next Thursday before the Legislature's Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry.
Opponents say the bill would roll back protections for Maine's North Woods, but bill supporters say the region needs less restrictive regulation to better attract jobs and development.
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