Moosehead ski resort developers ask that public hearing on project be denied

BANGOR DAILY NEWS • February 8, 2022

The developer and partners involved with a proposed year-round ski resort on Big Moose Mountain in Piscataquis County have asked the state not to hold a public hearing on the project. The Maine Land Use Planning Commission will vote at a virtual meeting Wednesday whether to hold a public hearing to air concerns brought up by the residents group Moosehead Region Futures Committee and a Greenville area resident about resort-related financing, sewage disposal and some of the features to be built. The planning commission’s staff had recommended a public hearing, but Big Lake Development LLC and engineering consultant James W. Sewall Co. contended in a letter to the commission on Monday that the criteria for one has not been met. If the commission denies a public hearing, it leaves the Moosehead region community without much say in the first phase of the redevelopment.