2025 Comprehensive Plan
2025 Sorrento Comprehensive Plan
Has been accepted by the State!
The State has determined that our Comprehensive Plan is consistent with Maine's Growth Management Act!
The letter announcing that the plan is consistent can be found here.
The Sorrento Comprehensive Plan Committee worked with the Hancock County Planning Commission to make revisions on the Future Land Use Chapter and to address questions and additions the State had for previous drafts of the whole plan.
Now the Town can proceed with the final local steps in the adoption process. This includes a public hearing scheduled for September 30 at 5:30 in the Sorrento Community Building.
The full draft version submitted on August 26 and now accepted can be found here. This version includes all final revisions.
Thanks everyone for your patience!
Documents in the process before this final submission/acceptance
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The Sorrento Comprehensive Plan is the product of a three-year community effort to understand Sorrento as it exists now and to articulate a long-term vision for its future. The plan provides guidance for the town as it seeks to build on its strengths, address its management challenges, increase its capacity, and respond to anticipated changes. In addition, the comprehensive plan is required for the town to be eligible for certain State programs, grants, and loans.
The comprehensive plan is intended to be a clear statement of the town’s values, collective vision, and future goals. It is meant to inform and guide the town as it makes management and planning decisions. The plan is not legally binding and creates no requirement, regulation, or ordinance of any kind. The expectation is that any recommendations or proposals contained in the plan will be given further consideration through the normal town public decision-making process. Any additional land use regulations need to be carefully considered, specific to identified community concerns, and have extensive public engagement.
