By: Sharon Kiley Mack // September 29, 2009
MILBRIDGE, Maine — In two separate votes Monday night, more than 165 Milbridge residents upheld a building moratorium that was enacted last June for multiunit housing.
In the first vote, which would have rescinded the entire moratorium, the vote was 65 yes, 100 no.
The second vote, which would have excluded from the moratorium Mano en Mano’s six-family housing unit proposed for Wyman Road, also was defeated but by a much smaller margin. The vote was 72 yes, 82 no.
The votes pave the way for a federal lawsuit filed by Mano en Mano against the town to proceed. A hearing on the suit had been scheduled for Friday, Oct. 2, but a continuance was granted earlier Monday.
If the town had voted to rescind the moratorium, the lawsuit would have been moot.
The court will set a new hearing date later this week.
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