Plans for 144-acre parcel at Brunswick Landing stir controversy
Results from an August survey that garnered more than 500 responses point to a desire for both much-needed affordable and workforce housing and conservation and recreation land but Councilor Dan Ankeles believes the parcel, originally part of the town commons, should be entirely preserved for conservation.
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BRUNSWICK A Brunswick town councilor wants to rezone a roughly 140-acre parcel on Brunswick Landing in an effort to save the land for trails and conservation and prevent development by Midcoast Regional Redevelopment Authority something he said could do “permanent ecological damage.”
The 144 acres in question were part of a roughly 275-acre area given to Bowdoin College for educational purposes in 2006 and includes a cranberry wetland, a radar tower, abandoned military bunkers, airport access roads, a quarry and land formerly part of the town commons.