[CPEO-IRF] Brunswick (ME) legislative compromise

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Richardson amends BNAS 'Pine Tree Zone' legislation
Speaker of Maine House proposes compromise to gain support of skeptical 
lawmakers

Christopher Cousins
Brunswick Times Record
February 28, 2006

BRUNSWICK — House Speaker John Richardson, D-Brunswick, recognizing that 
bringing business-encouraging Pine Tree Development Zones to the greater 
Brunswick area is not a given, has proposed a compromise designed to 
ease concerns expressed by lawmakers from other parts of the state.

Instead of tapping into existing geographic designations of Pine Tree 
Zones — a possibility that troubled some lawmakers from farther up the 
coast because their communities currently lie in the same geographic 
Pine Tree Zone as Brunswick — Richardson will offer an amendment that 
will tailor a Brunswick-area zone to the specific needs of a region that 
faces an inevitable economic downturn resulting from the closure of 
Brunswick Naval Air Station.

Richardson envisions an application process that businesses or 
developers could use to have their projects considered on a case-by-case 
basis. The Brunswick Democrat said Monday that he will offer an 
amendment to this effect this week to legislation that would bring Pine 
Tree Zones to the area.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.timesrecord.com/website/main.nsf/news.nsf/0/6C9DEE2688D7B65C05257123005C494F?Opendocument

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org


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