SUN JOURNAL • April 6, 2021
Auburn Mayor Jason Levesque presents the citizens with another winner of an idea. Any owner of a house lot of 12,000 square feet (a house lot is typically 100 x 100 or 10,000 square feet) will be allowed to build another house to rent or sell to anyone who doesn’t mind being hemmed in. This new zoning law will apply anywhere in the city. Auburn will be a unique landscape dotted with thousands of new houses all of different sizes and designs. And to think no other city has thought of such a plan — not Portland, Cape Elizabeth, or Falmouth — all cities with a housing shortage. We are truly innovators. No doubt Auburn will make it into city planning textbooks, even if for all the wrong reasons. ~ Pam Larouche, Auburn