An Act To Reform the Land Use Planning Authority in the Unorganized Territories (2011)
LD 1534 set up a study committee that seemed biased toward abolishing the Land Use Regulation Commission (LURC), the state agency charged with protecting Maine’s vast North Woods. Policymakers had the option to support the committee’s Minority Report – a balanced legislative study to identify ways to improve LURC. Instead, the majority of lawmakers voted for a study process that seemed to have a pre-determined mission of dismantling LURC and moving its planning and regulatory functions to counties that include portions of the unorganized territories of northern Maine.
