A minor correction: Steven Coston (AKA Admin) is not Paul Coston's nephew he's his son. Another point that bears mentioning is that for many years this particular property contained a rental unit. I know because I once almost rented it. There goes yet another potential place for a "local" to call home. That said I must admit that zoning regulations in Bar Harbor seem very permissive. Forty-four room B&Bs in a no hotel zone and now a 20 room hotel on a .4 acre house lot. NYC developers eat ya heart out! They'd kill for such permissive zoning. Come to think of it maybe that's why Bar Harbor is more and more in the crosshairs of the "Too much is not enough!" crowd of Trump wannabes?
Absolutely appalling…..no profit opportunity is too ugly, too over the top traffic hazardous, too close to the K through 8 school for the greedy local robber barons of Coston and St. Germain. They have brought a new style of looting and plundering , probably legal per the way the Town of Bar Harbor views these projects, to Eden.
I think, though, if this abomination is built, the guests from the upper floors will have some wonderful views of the mega cruise ships.
I wonder how poor Eddy Brook will fare during the construction phase…..Eddy,s water goes directly into the harbor.
Doesn't Bar Harbor need more hotels to attract more tourists? More hotels to comfortably accommodate tourists rather than any year-round housing for the caravan of commuters that daily crawls down Route 3 to work in town then crawls out when their day is done? But where is the most money to be made? Isn't making money more important than Mainers' quality of life? And anyway, isn't the Comprehensive Plan to make Bar Harbor the future Disneyland of New England?
Besides, the Town Council treats actual year-round residents (who vote) as a nuisance to their purse-over-people mission to represent the profit interests of the cruise ship industry rather than town residents. Might not more housing for year-round residents increase that nuisance?
That intersection is already dangerous, imagine adding more traffic between West st and Cottage!
A minor correction: Steven Coston (AKA Admin) is not Paul Coston's nephew he's his son. Another point that bears mentioning is that for many years this particular property contained a rental unit. I know because I once almost rented it. There goes yet another potential place for a "local" to call home. That said I must admit that zoning regulations in Bar Harbor seem very permissive. Forty-four room B&Bs in a no hotel zone and now a 20 room hotel on a .4 acre house lot. NYC developers eat ya heart out! They'd kill for such permissive zoning. Come to think of it maybe that's why Bar Harbor is more and more in the crosshairs of the "Too much is not enough!" crowd of Trump wannabes?
Absolutely appalling…..no profit opportunity is too ugly, too over the top traffic hazardous, too close to the K through 8 school for the greedy local robber barons of Coston and St. Germain. They have brought a new style of looting and plundering , probably legal per the way the Town of Bar Harbor views these projects, to Eden.
I think, though, if this abomination is built, the guests from the upper floors will have some wonderful views of the mega cruise ships.
I wonder how poor Eddy Brook will fare during the construction phase…..Eddy,s water goes directly into the harbor.
Doesn't Bar Harbor need more hotels to attract more tourists? More hotels to comfortably accommodate tourists rather than any year-round housing for the caravan of commuters that daily crawls down Route 3 to work in town then crawls out when their day is done? But where is the most money to be made? Isn't making money more important than Mainers' quality of life? And anyway, isn't the Comprehensive Plan to make Bar Harbor the future Disneyland of New England?
Besides, the Town Council treats actual year-round residents (who vote) as a nuisance to their purse-over-people mission to represent the profit interests of the cruise ship industry rather than town residents. Might not more housing for year-round residents increase that nuisance?
How about a dozen apartments for locals instead
Whoa, crazy talk!
Enough is enough. No more hotels.