PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • February 4, 2021
Repeating the folly of its 1960s predecessor, which destroyed Union Station, the City Council rejected the proposed Munjoy Hill Historic District, rationalizing the rejection largely on an uncertain economic impact. The Historic Preservation Board made a convincing case, endorsed by the Planning Board, and the council’s rejection opens the floodgates to substantial erosion of the Hill’s middle-class housing and destruction of its sense of place. Union Station folly all over again. ~ R. John Wuesthoff, Portland