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Bangor City Manager’s First Year | Bangor News
One year in, Bangor’s new city manager Carollynn Lear is tackling a city in crisis—homelessness, an HIV outbreak, and a housing shortage—with bold new strategies. She’s optimistic about a newly formed committee set to craft a long-term homelessness plan, freeing up council time for overdue priorities like infrastructure and economic growth. While enforcement of anti-camping laws keeps encampments small, aging systems—especially wastewater—block housing expansion, as Bangor approved just 32 new units last year. Lear’s pushing for economic development to ease tax burdens and wants to improve…
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