PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • May 6, 2025
The Scarborough Town Council recently adopted a new open space master plan, which catalogs all open space in the town and identifies areas to target for conservation. The plan, passed unanimously by the council last month, is Scarborough’s first open space master plan since the 1990s. It will aid the town’s effort to achieve its goal to have 30% of land in town under conservation by 2030. When the council set the goal in June 2023, the town had 5,391 acres, or roughly 17%, of its land either under conservation or reserved for open space and public recreation. That number now stands at over 23%.