CORRECTION: BH Planning cruise ship board hearing is Wednesday at 4 p.m.
Update of previous post:
New cruise ship plan is reprise of Kevin Sutherland's generous 2022 giveaway
BAR HARBOR, Aug. 4, 2024 - Now it’s clear why it’s taken so long for the town manager to release the cruise ship management plan, which the Town Council wants to enact and to repeal the citizens’ passenger cap approved on Nov. 8, 2022.
The plan released Saturday is an unmade bed, with many sections marked in yellow and lots more work to do. (The relevant section starts on Page 89.)
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So what about enforcement?
It seems the Town Council and Planning Board are worried the present Land Use Ordinance(LUO), can't handle enforcement.
If that is the case, can the town enforce anything in the, LUO?
If there are only going to be 1-2 small ships creating a total of 1,000 passengers total for a day it would seem possible to have 1 town employee keep track of that, just like parking enforcement officers. The officer would only need to be at the one dock. I wish I could say that I could trust the cruise ship or landing dock owner to keep track of passenger numbers but I wouldn't want to impose on their other duties like training lifeboat coxswains so they don't hit anything and turning off their engines when docked.
So just how is present code enforcement handled?
Could somebody please refer to a page in the LUO, that I could find it so I can see if I can understand it and any possible problems with its use?