The Maine Land Use Regulation Commission (LURC) was created in 1971 to guide land use and planning decisions in Maine’s unorganized territories, including 10.4 million acres of Maine’s North Woods. This session, numerous bills were introduced which would have significantly eroded LURC’s regulatory abilities. The most troubling of these proposals was LD 1370, which would have eliminated LURC altogether and instead allowed each county within the unorganized territories to regulate land use planning. This failed bill would have significantly weakened Maine’s current environmental protections in the unorganized territories because comprehensive planning and enforcement of environmental regulations for much of Maine’s North Woods would have been lost.

Votes / Roll Calls:

Date	Desc	Yea	Nay	No Vote	Absent	Total	Passed	Chamber
01/01/2009	Roll Call	7	5	0	0	12	1
Votes	Show Susan M. W. Austin Nay Seth A. Berry Yea Bruce A. Bickford Nay Richard M. Cebra Nay Margaret M. Craven Yea Philip A. Curtis Nay John L. Martin Yea H. Sawin Millett Jr. Nay Ann E. Peoples Yea Anne C. Perry Yea Joseph C. Perry Sr. Yea John L. Tuttle Yea