Mainebiz

Bar Harbor grapples with short-term rentals

Bar Harbor residents are grappling with the benefits and consequences of short-term rentals in their town. At its March 19 meeting, the Bar Harbor Town Council opened the floor to a standing-room-only ...
Mount Desert Islander

Bar Harbor council adopts amended VR-1 regulations

They ultimately landed on a requirement for applicants to provide three legal documents from a list of seven in order to give ...
Mainebiz

Bar Harbor considers cap on short-term rentals

The town of Bar Harbor is looking at curtailing the conversion of year-round housing to vacation rental units, with a goal to ultimately cap the number of vacation rentals on a percentage basis. While ...
Forbes

Salt Cottages To Open In Bar Harbor, Maine

A stay in a classic seaside vacation cottage has long been part of a summer trip to Maine. Now there’s a revamped version of those old time cottage colonies called Salt Cottages that dispenses with ...
Portland Press Herald

Sea Change: Caught in a jam — As vacationers keep flooding into Maine, civic leaders are studying the impact of ‘overtourism’ on places like Acadia and Bar Harbor.

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WABI-TV

Jackson Lab building year-round employee housing in Bar Harbor

BAR HARBOR, Maine (WABI) - Local and state officials as well as local leaders from MDI visited the site of the Jackson Lab’s future housing development in Bar Harbor Thursday. Jax currently has ...