City Services
Land and Building: Code Enforcement
Code Enforcement -- Fifteen Minutes
Renter's Insurance-The Code Officer's Perspective
Shoreland Zoning Program
Historic Preservation Program
Myths & Facts - National Flood Insurance Program
Flood Management Program
Flood Insurance
The State of Maine requires every community to, at a minimum, regulate shoreland areas within 250 feet of the normal highwater mark of rivers, streams, great ponds and wetlands over ten acres in size and within 75 feet, horizontal distance from the upland edge of other freshwater wetlands.
The State of Maine has a model shoreland zoning ordinance or municipalities may adopt their own subject to approval by the State of Maine .
The City of Bangor has adopted its own ordinance, which is referred to as Shoreland Zoning and is incorporated as Article VII into the City's Land Development Code (Chapter 165 of the Laws and Ordinances of the City of Bangor).
Shoreland Zoning, in Bangor, includes those areas within 250 feet of the normal high-water mark of the Penobscot River and the Kenduskeag Stream and 75 feet, horizontal distance, of the upland edge of any freshwater wetland.
Property owners, contractors and developers should note land within these areas are subject to the regulations set forth under Shoreland Zoning as well as more traditional "use" zoning of the Land Development Code.
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