BANGOR DAILY NEWS • May 9, 2024
Approximately 220 people attended Mount Desert’s annual town meeting Tuesday night, and by a vote of 134 to 72, voters rejected legislation to license short-term rentals, seasonal rentals and vacation rentals. Short-term rentals, seasonal vacation rentals and Vacation rentals all would have needed to get a license, which would have been renewable every year. One of the first speakers against the ordinance said, “My family has been here for centuries.” She has rented her house both short term and long term, and she feels “that it’s nobody’s business except for mine what I do with my property. It’s a legal activity.”