Letter: Column rightly criticized calls for more development

PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • October 18, 2023

All my 70 years of life as a Maine resident, I’ve been confused that expansion, development, more pavement and more jobs and more people equals progress. Who eliminated the state planning office? I’d like to know. If it were still active, would we need, or care, to spend thousands of our dollars on out-of-state “experts”? Ugh. ~ Peter Brown, Freeport [Ed: The Maine State Planning Office was eliminated by Gov. Paul LePage in 2012.]