PUBLIC HEARING & POSSIBLE VOTE ON PORT PROPERTY’S BAYSIDE MASTER DEVELOPMENT PLAN

WHEN: Tuesday June 13, 5:30 PM
WHERE: Via Zoom (go here and click on Agenda to find the meeting link and info on giving public comment)

The Planning Board will take public comment and possibly vote whether to approve Port Property’s proposal to re-develop several blocks of the Bayside neighborhood. The plan calls for 804 apartments in seven buildings from five to ten stories. Twenty-five per cent of the units must be affordable to tenants making up to 60% of the area median income.

As proposed, six buildings are reserved for 603 market rate units & a separate building will contain the 201 affordable units. The plan also proposes ground-floor retail, tenant parking in an off-site garage, open space, and a “woonerf” (shared street). For full details on the plan go here. The most recent documents were uploaded on 6/2/2023.

Share your thoughts by sending comments and questions to planningboard@portlandmaine.gov ASAP so the Planning Board has time to review. Reference Port Property’s Bayside Master Development Plan PL-002315-2022 in the subject line.

You can also speak for up to three minutes at the meeting.

Note – The first item on the agenda for this meeting is a public hearing for another Port Property project (under Tom Watson & Co.) that proposes to convert office space at 511 Congress Street into 107 housing units.