On August 15th more than a hundred people attended a Belfast Planning board meeting at the Troy Howard Middle School. Nearly all of the two dozen who spoke urged the board to reject the proposed zoning changes (listen below) that the Belfast city council had come up with and do a re-start, with the planning board properly evaluating them first. It was noted that a lawsuit filed by two Belfast residents is challenging the lawfulness of the City Council's process of developing the changes. Those changes were detailed by city planner Wayne Marshall in a 33 minute presentation before the public comments began.
Listen below as 34 members of the public and businesses spoke out at the August 13, 2018 Rockland City Council meeting. Topic: Order 51 " Adopting Cruise Ship Shore Policy" to establish a cruise ship visitors cap, and the broader issue of the effect of reducing or growing the cruise ship visits to Rockland and the bay Listen below. The City Council then discussed and adopted Order 51 as amended (Raising the daily passenger cap from 2500 to 3000. And removing the monthly cap of 9,000 passengers and replacing it with a cap of 6 ships. 
