SHaM to host pub meeting Oct 13th on its plan to turn half of downtown Rockland Harbor into a used mega-yacht lot & ruin the view.

Safe Harbors is a Texas holding company that's been buying up marinas around the United States and transforming them into their own version.  Sort of a Wal-mart of marinas.

Its plan here is to retool the withdrawn Yachting Solutions marina plan into one setting aside considerable space for  hosting mega-yachts. Even butting into the public navigation channel.  

For restless billionaires roaming the Northwest Atlantic expect marinas  in every coastal reach, with all the amenities these 1%-ers must have, to distract them from the dull grind of rulership over their various corporate kingdoms

For Rockland is, in their eyes,  useful as  place to dump their wastes, a refueling base, and,  with a  corporate jet-friendly  airport  in  nearby Owls Head, a place to join up with their yacht without the noise and clutter of  embarking and debarking in Boston  and  Portland harbors.

And  with a weak city government that historically has reflexively kowtowed to every developer coming down the pike.  It it weren't for ordinary Rockland residents and public  harbor users citizens stepping in and  fending off  these irritating  s