A newly formed task force reforming Maine's Land Use Regulation Commission is drawing attention from environmentalists, developers and others, but one interested party has an especially big stake in ...

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You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. AUGUSTA – I remember one winter afternoon. I was checking a logging job in ...

When Terry Hill needs a permit to build a cabin on her campground, she doesn’t drive to a town hall. She calls a state agency that handles the planning and zoning functions ordinarily taken care of by ...

Currently, LURC’s legal services are provided by the Maine Attorney General’s Office. According to estimates from the AG, LURC pays $25,000 a year to the AG, but receives between $75,000 and $100,000 ...

AUGUSTA -- Northern Maine needs less restrictive regulation in the unorganized territory to give it a better chance to attract jobs and other development, members of a group exploring changes to the ...

AUGUSTA (AP) — Legislation that sought to abolish Maine’s Land Use Regulation Commission has been bypassed in favor of a longer study into the future of the agency, which oversees development in the ...

Less than two weeks after the Maine Land Use Regulation Commission approved the Stetson Mountain wind farm, it is scheduled today to consider two more proposals for wind farms. LURC is scheduled to ...

The strange case of the Land Use Regulatory Commission just got a little stranger. LURC, as it's commonly known, is a relatively obscure state agency that nonetheless governs half the state's land ...

Word of praise for the often maligned Land Use Regulation Commission: Thank you, commissioners, for a job thoughtfully, responsibly, courageously and well done, and within the law. And thanks, too, to ...