City of Auburn, Maine, Comp Plan Committee Meeting, Novemberr 5, 2026

The City of Auburn Comprehensive Plan Committee met November 5, 2026, to review Planning Board recommendations and public comments before the plan goes to the City Council. No procurement activity, contract awards, or purchasing decisions were identified. The committee discussed zoning, transportation, parks and trails, broadband and digital equity, water access, and infrastructure planning. Public commenters focused especially on restrictions on residential uses in the agricultural zone and the ability of landowners to build on their property.

The committee approved several plan revisions, including changing a citywide landscaping and buffering proposal to say such standards should be considered during development of district zoning regulations, and adopting revised agricultural/forestry/recreation land-use language aligned with existing ordinance provisions; the latter passed 13–2. It rejected or struck several other proposed additions: committee checkpoints for input (the recommendation did not pass), micromobility guidance (12–1), sidewalk and walkway language (13–2), additional boat-access language (unanimously), and broadband inventory and expansion-plan items, which members voted to remove and address elsewhere in the plan. A parks-and-trails revision replacing “coordinate” with “collaborate” and removing an all-seasons access phrase passed unanimously. Staff also agreed to clarify in a library inventory note that the library no longer serves Minot. The committee then forwarded the plan, with staff to incorporate minor state comments, for City Council consideration.