GrowSmart News and Updates
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GrowSmart News and Updates
Testimony on the Draft 2018 Action Plan of Maine Housing and Dept of Economic & Community Development
Testimony of Nancy Smith, Executive Director of GrowSmart Maine With regards to Draft 2018 Action Plan Maine State Housing Authority and the Department of Economic and Community Development December 11, 2017 Representatives of the Maine State Housing Authority...
Proposed Federal Tax Reform Bills Cut Important and Proven Tax Credits: Historic Tax Credit & Low-Income Housing Tax Credit
This memo was prepared by Nancy Smith, Executive Director of GrowSmart Maine, and select information was presented at a 11.13.17 Roundtable discussion hosted by Congresswoman Chellie Pingree in Portland, Maine. See bottom of this page for a link to the video of the...
Reinvention without Loss of Identity – Why We Renovate
By David Webster. There are many reasons for renovating older buildings. For me, seeing buildings as a major contributor to the character of a place is a reason to renovate rather than replace. They represent the history of a community; why and how a community...
New Auburn’s Village Center Renaissance
By Ethan Boxer-Macomber As advocates of Smart Growth, we are all encouraged and delighted by the current national trend toward redirection of resources to traditional city and town centers abandoned and neglected over 60 years of urban flight and suburban...
The Kennebec River – A Success Story of Recovery and Restored Relationships
By Pete Didisheim, guest author Over the past 200 years, the Kennebec River has gone through a remarkable cycle of depletion and recovery. Sitting on the banks of the river today, watching osprey in flight and sturgeon breaching, it is difficult to picture how...
‘More action; less talk’ – GrowSmart Maine is Listening
“I don’t ask you your age, don’t ask mine.” Earlier this year GrowSmart Maine asked members, colleagues and total strangers to take a survey. We wanted to know which issues matter to them, how they thought we should address them and, oh yeah, how they thought we were...
Is Walking Controversial?
Join us in an exploration of the transportation ecosystem at our upcoming Walkability Forum in Bangor, Sept 19th. Register now! By Carol Morris. Working with all different kinds of people is a big part of my job as a public outreach consultant. As a matter of fact, if...
Walkability: A Win-Win proposition
Registration now open for the half-day forum September 19th in Bangor Full Program & Registration Information Here: The Case For Walkability: Health, Economic Development, and Sustainability By Karen Marysdaughter In 2015 my partner and I moved into Bangor after...
When You Build it, They Will Come
Registration now open for the September Forum: The Case for Walkability: Health, Economic Development and Sustainability Sept 19th, Bangor Maine By Lynne Seeley I heard a saying once - birds love to fly, fish love to swim, and dogs love to walk. I can attest to the...
See what all the fuss is about – A visit to the Katahdin Region & the Katahdin Woods & Waters National Monument
By Executive Director Nancy Smith || I’ve been paying attention to the very public debate about the Katahdin Woods & Waters National Monument with the same curiosity as most Mainers, and this past weekend, I traveled a few hours north to explore the Katahdin...