Governer’s Council on Maine’s Quality of Place Recommendations
Regional Landscape Conservation
- Recognize and support private landowner’s crucial role in protecting Maine’s quality of place
- Recognize, incentivize, and reward regional landscape conservation
- Recognize and act upon the historic changes faced by LURC
- Align the State’s basic land use statutes with quality of place
Community and Downtown Revitalization
- Adopt a strong state community preservation and development policy
- Provide communities with development assistance
- Enhance historic preservation tools
- Enact the Maine Community Preservation Act
- Create the Maine intrastate trail system
Asset-based Development Strategy
- A local-regional approach to development: use a locally-driven, broadly participatory structure to identify key assets and to design and implement strategies to preserve and promote these assets
- State incentives and support: establish a state grant program to assist with the preparation of regional asset-based development strategies
- State coordination: establish a permanent state-level Maine Quality of Place Council
- Implementation funding: provide reliable funding to implement regional and statewide asset-based development strategies
- State support: organize state programs and agencies to incentivize and support bottom-up, asset-based development efforts
- Workforce Development: align Maine’s workforce development system and programs with Quality of Place opportunities
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