The 2024 Yarmouth Comprehensive Plan identified a high-priority action to assess barriers to housing development in the town’s zoning ordinance, and to recommend new Medium Density Residential zoning. This process involved a deep policy review, district-specific land use analysis, and a buildout study that modeled the district’s potential under existing and proposed standards.

North Star Planning supported Levine Planning Strategies and Human Service Research Institute on a study for Cumberland County to evaluate the need and options for services for people experiencing or at risk of homelessness in the Lakes Region, including the towns of Baldwin, Casco, Naples, Raymond, and Sebago.

The Town of Yarmouth built off an earlier visioning process to develop a plan around 4 goals that came up over and over again during community engagement: increased inclusivity, expanded housing options, an enlivened local economy, and environmental protection. The resulting plan is centered on these priorities, with direct links to public feedback and a detailed list of actions to take for each one. These ideas are threaded through the plan’s Future Land Use Plan, which seeks to pursue all four goals while finding balance between them.

Winner of MAP 2024 Plan of the Year! After a few years of internal work, the City contracted with North Star Planning in 2022 to hold public engagement events for the plan and complete the work staff had started. NSP hosted several in-person meetings and online activities to get wide-ranging input from the community and developed an implementation-focused final plan based around four big ideas for Bath.

North Star Planning, in partnership with Aceto Landscape Architects (ALA) worked with the towns of Windham and Gorham to update the Little Falls and South Windham Villages Masterplan. North Star Planning led the public outreach and public facilitation process.

North Star collaborated with Gorrill Palmer engineers and Aceto Landscape Architecture to develop this transportation planning and feasibility study for one of Maine’s most highly-trafficked corridors: Route 302 in North Windham.