ROCKPORT – Rockport Harbor Hotel’s rooftop Atrium Restaurant was opened to the public with a Business After Hours event hosted by the…
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Attorney to request reconsideration
ROCKPORT — Maine’s highest court declined to hear the appeal of a Rockport resident concerning the Rockport Harbor Hotel on Central Street in the Village, saying the notice of appeal was untimely…
ROCKPORT — Despite a…
Letter to the editor
Having achieved our primary goals, Friends of Rockport has decided to withdraw from any further litigation related to the Rockport Harbor Hotel.
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Municipal process and procedures again questioned
ROCKPORT — Construction on the Rockport Harbor Hotel in Rockport Village has resumed, and in the wake, two additional appeals — one of the new building permit, the other of the town planning board…
ROCKPORT — It has been a three-month construction pause, but April 1, the Rockport Code Enforcement Officer issued once again a permit to 20 Central Street LLC, the company that is in the process…
No building permit, yet
ROCKPORT — Gorrill Palmer, the transportation engineering firm required by the Town of Rockport, has produced its traffic study of the…
traffic study under review by town attorneys to ensure it meets court order requirements
ROCKPORT — On March 2, Knox County Justice Bruce Mallonee issued his order on the various post-judgment motions entered by attorneys advocating for or against the construction of a new hotel in…
Parking study, number of hotel rooms issues still on the table
ROCKPORT — Three hours of deliberation and discussion ended Thursday evening, Jan. 27, with four members of the Rockport Planning Board agreeing to continue their meeting until Feb. 3, when they…
ROCKPORT — Thursday evening, Jan. 27, via Zoom, the Rockport Planning Board will again take up the controversial issue of a new hotel that has been under construction in Rockport Village. In a…
ROCKPORT — Despite the ongoing court dispute over permits and legal appeals, the developers of the new Rockport Harbor Hotel, on Central Street in Rockport Village, are opening its doors January…
ROCKPORT —In a three-count judgment issued Jan. 3, Knox County Justice Bruce Mallonee has directed the Rockport Planning Board to reconsider a site plan application for a new Rockport hotel, which…
ROCKLAND — It was a highly anticipated Zoom session this afternoon, Dec. 15, with Justice Bruce Mallonee and his call for a court hearing on how he would proceed with the specifics of his Dec. 1…
Kelley: Information from meetings should be shared with public sooner
ROCKPORT — On Dec. 13, members of the Rockport Select Board voted to table a motion asking that they approve the “mission” of the Town’s Parking Task Force, citing a lack of communication or…
Dec. 15 hearing
ROCKPORT — 20 Central LLC principal Stuart Smith appreciated a portion of the rulings made by Justice Bruce Mallonee Dec 2 concerning the ongoing court battle over his new 26-room Rockport Village…
Cites Off-site parking, architectural harmony as up for review
ROCKPORT — Knox County Superior Court Justice Bruce Mallonee issued his decision and order Dec. 2 concerning the town’s approval of a new…
No decisions rendered
ROCKPORT — The Monday morning spent in Knox County Courtroom No. 1 with Justice Bruce Mallonee was of patient legal discourse, as attorneys for three different parties involved in the Rockport…
ROCKPORT — A Knox County Superior Court Justice is taking up the constitutional question concerning two land use ordinance amendments…
Next stop, July 12, Knox County Superior Court
ROCKPORT – Voting unanimously on every motion before it July 8, the Rockport Zoning Board of Appeals decided in favor of…
ROCKPORT – Possibly the most complicated case to ever land before Rockport’s quasi-judicial Zoning Board of Appeals will wind toward the…
Appellants say plans differ from Rockport Planning Board’s site plan approval
ROCKPORT — Six citizens are appealing the granting of a building permit issued to 20 Central LLC for the construction of a new hotel in Rockport Village. Most of the points the appellants’…
Likelihood of success on the merits cannot be established without further briefing
ROCKPORT — Maine Superior Court Justice Bruce Mallonee has denied the request of the Friends of Rockport, John Priestley, Mark Schwarzmann and Clare Tully for a temporary restraining order of the…
Lot would be located near bridge, new hotel
On April 12 the Rockport Select Board heard a presentation by Bill Lane of Gartley & Dorsky Engineers of a proposed 28-space parking lot that would be built above Rockport Harbor, near the…
ROCKPORT — On March 10, the Town of Rockport issued a building permit to 20 Central Street LLC to build a new 26-room hotel with restaurant, in Rockport Village. On the same day, five Rockport…
Unanimous vote in favor of Planning Board’s findings
In a unanimous vote, on Jan. 21 Rockport’s Zoning Board of Appeals rejected an appeal brought against the town’s Planning Board in their decision to grant site plan approval for a proposed four-…
ROCKLAND — Justice Bruce Mallonee issued his decision this week on a request for an injunction on any building permits issued by the Town of Rockport for a new hotel in Rockport Village.
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Rockport group cites citizen petitions, voter approval at 2020 town meeting
ROCKLAND – On Jan. 7, the nonprofit Friends of Rockport filed a court complaint requesting an injunction of, and a temporary restraining order against, any building permits issued by the town’s…
Final ruling on appeal expected January 21
ROCKPORT — Despite not yet making their final ruling on an appeal brought against a proposed downtown hotel, in a series of votes Jan. 6 members of Rockport’s Zoning Board of Appeals found that…
Jan. 6, 6 p.m.
ROCKPORT — On Jan. 6, the Rockport Zoning Board of Appeals will continue its consideration of citizen objections to the approval that the town’s Planning Board gave last spring for the…
ROCKPORT — Members of Rockport’s Zoning Board of Appeals voted Dec. 9 to continue in two weeks its review of an appeal brought against municipal approval of a new downtown hotel, rather than…
Dec. 22, 6:30 p.m.
ROCKPORT — On Dec. 9, the Rockport Zoning Board of Appeals will continue its consideration of citizen objections to the approval that the town’s Planning Board gave last spring for the…
Board addresses parking issue raised by appellants
ROCKPORT — Four attorneys, members of Rockport’s Zoning Board of Appeals, and project proponents met Dec. 1 via Zoom to continue a review of an appeal brought against a proposed four-story hotel…
Dec. 1 meeting
ROCKPORT — On Dec. 1, the Rockport Zoning Board of Appeals will continue its consideration of citizen objections to the approval that the town’s Planning Board gave last spring for the…
Public Hearing continues to Dec. 1
ROCKPORT — At the end of a Nov. 17 virtual meeting that lasted more than four hours,…
Zoning Board of Appeals meeting, Tuesday, Nov. 17, 6 p.m.
ROCKPORT — The quasi-judicial Rockport Zoning Board of Appeals will consider Nov. 17 a citizens’ objection to the approval granted last…
Concerns raised over public input, participation
ROCKPORT — A draft of an ordinance that would regulate short-term rentals in Rockport will be presented at a Select Board meeting on Nov. 9. After a lengthy discussion on the topic at their Oct.…
Tentatively schedules village hotel appeals hearing
ROCKPORT — Four attorneys representing four different interests — the Town of Rockport Planning Board, the Town of Rockport Zoning Board of Appeals, the group the Friends of Rockport, and 20…
ROCKPORT — Annual Town Meeting 2020 in Rockport took an historic deviation from tradition Aug. 18 when all municipal business was conducted in the voting booth at the town office, instead of…
Letter to the editor: Rockport Select Board
The Rockport Select Board believes that once a property owner has received overwhelming voter approval of a development project, plus unanimous approval of the Planning Board, voters should not…
Who sent the political mailer?
Short term rental rules, RES redevelopment, pop-store at harbor, and warrant all top Rockport agenda
ROCKPORT — With opinions flying about Rockport crafting short term rental rules, along with an architect’s suggestion to get informed advice before diving into a redevelopment plan for the RES…
Appeal asserts Planning Board, ‘made errors of law, abused its discretion’
ROCKPORT — On June 19, the Town of Rockport received a notice of appeal following the May 21 Planning Board site plan approval for the development of the Rockport Harbor Hotel, at 20 Central…
ROCKPORT — The attorney representing a recently formed nonprofit, as well as citizens separate from that nonprofit, will be appealing the May 21 decision of the Rockport Planning Board approval of…
Rockport’s Planning Board to consider village hotel findings of fact, two Route 17 solar power farms
ROCKPORT — The Planning Board in Rockport has several large-scale projects under consideration, and this evening, May…
ROCKPORT — A downtown Rockport hotel proposed by Stuart and Tyler Smith must meet conditions outlined by the Rockport Planning Board in order to receive further approvals. The board met Feb. 27…
Two petitions are being circulated in Rockport which seek residents and registered voters to support reducing the allowable amount of rooms per downtown hotel to 20, and requiring that off-street…
Continued hotel review postponed until February
The Rockport Planning Board voted Jan. 23 to continue its review of a proposed 35-room hotel at 20 Central Street next month rather than at the Thursday night meeting as originally scheduled.…
Unanimous vote in favor of off-site, valet parking plan
Members of the Rockport Zoning Board of Appeals (ZBA) voted unanimously in favor of a plan for off-site parking plan by the developers of a proposed 35-room hotel in…
Zoning board meets Wednesday, planning board on Thursday
Rockport’s Zoning Board of Appeals will convene Jan. 22 at 5:30 p.m. to hear an appeal for off-site parking by the developers of a proposed 35-room hotel in Rockport Village. The open meeting will…
Satellite parking, shuttle, electric scooters pitched to resolve tight parking in Rockport Village
ROCKPORT — With parking a much discussed commodity now in Rockport Village, and the acknowledgement that guests staying at a proposed new hotel will compete for available space, developers are now…
Continued review of five-story hotel on Central Street
On Dec. 19 the Rockport Planning Board will review proposals for four new projects in town including a three-lot residential subdivision near the Goose River Golf Course. The board will also…
