PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • March 11, 2022
Even by rural Maine standards, North Yarmouth is a small town, with barely 4,000 residents. Despite that, some in town think it’s been growing too fast in recent years, and they want to “tap the brakes” on further development. Town voters will go to the polls Tuesday to consider a referendum question that would limit the number of building permits the town can issue to 15 a year in the Village Center and Village Residential districts. North Yarmouth already has a cap of 15 permits in the Farm and Forest District, the third and largest zoning district in town, meaning there would be a limit of 30 permits a year townwide if the referendum passes.