The town is
now going to either deny/prohibit more development because this is
where the jobs are and won't let the fishing industry be dictated by
developers or owners.

In most parts of North America, boat building has moved inland. You
can always truck a boat to the water, but the waterfront land is too
valuable to be used for construction. More and more I even see
boatyards located inland. In Alton NH there's a yard on a hilltop deep
in the piney woods, where in winter I see scores of boats wrapped in
blue plastic, the blue all gone now of course.

The situation you describe is very common on the Maine coast. Most
communities try hard to accommodate shoreside yards and fishing docks,
because they are part of the reason that tourists come to town. The
problem of course is taxes. The state has to adopt some kind of
current-use taxation to favor the landowner, such as we have here in
New Hampshire with farm and forest land. Shorefront lots are worth
$100,000 and on up--pretty stiff for a lobster dock.


all the best -- Dan Ford
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