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Avesta Housing President & CEO Rebecca Hatfield leads a panel discussion about successful strategies to build more housing, with Westbrook City Administrator Jerre Bryant, Portland Mayor Mark Dion, Biddeford Mayor Marty Grohman, Bridgton Community Development Director Tori Hill and, Yarmouth Planning and Development Director Erin Zwirko. Next, on the final segment of the Greater Portland Council on Government Housing Summit, we hear about the town of Kennebunkport who created a nonprofit housing trust that housed six families in less than a year, with more affordable homes on the way. Larissa Crocket, Executive Director of the Kennebunkport Heritage Housing Trust, and Kennebunkport Town Manager Laurie Smith discuss the challenges of the housing initiative and what made it successful. Then, Erin Zwirko, Planning and Development Director in Yarmouth, Maine, talks about how the town used form-based code to build housing that fits in the historic community. A form-based code is a land development regulation that fosters predictable built results and a high-quality public realm by using physical form (rather than separation of uses) as the organizing principle for the code. Learn more at GreatMaineNeighborhoods.org
