MAINE PUBLIC • March 22, 2023
Residents in the Down East town of Columbia Falls have approved a large-scale development moratorium, by a vote of 63-17. The town has been eyed as the potential site of a multibillion-dollar veterans memorial park and a 1,400-foot flagpole, envisioned as the world's tallest. The developers said last fall that they were reevaluating the business structure for the project, which had been originally pitched as a for-profit venture.