BROOKS v. TOWN OF BAR HARBOR

Docket: Han-23-159.

314 A.3d 205 (2024)

2024 ME 21

Erica BROOKS et al. v. TOWN OF BAR HARBOR.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided: March 26, 2024.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Erica Johanson, Esq. (orally), and Paige Eggleston, Esq., Jensen Baird, Portland, for appellants Erica Brooks and Victoria Smith.

Jonathan P. Hunter, Esq. (orally), and Stephen W. Wagner, Esq., Rudman Winchell, Bangor, for appellee Town of Bar Harbor.

Sarah J. Jancarik, Esq., Maine Municipal Association, Augusta, for amicus curiae Maine Municipal Association.

Panel: STANFILL, C.J., and MEAD, HORTON, CONNORS, LAWRENCE, and DOUGLAS, JJ.


[¶1] The question presented in this declaratory judgment action is whether the Town of Bar Harbor's adoption of an amendment to its Land Use Ordinance regarding vacation rentals was void because it was passed with less than a supermajority. The Superior Court (Hancock County, R. Murray, J.) concluded a supermajority was not...

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