Blue Hill denies controversial housing plan on blueberry barren

Blue Hill denies controversial housing plan on blueberry barren

Blue Hill’s planning board has denied a developer’s application to subdivide a blueberry barren into nine lots for high-end homes. Wednesday’s unanimous vote, with one member absent and another abstaining, comes more than a year after Kennebunk-based builder Geoff Bowley proposed the project on 38 acres of former commercial blueberry land, which he bought in 2023. While the vote was a long-awaited event, the barren’s fate is likely far from reso…

Blue Hill Planning Board strikes down development proposal for blueberry barrens

BLUE HILL -- The Blue Hill Planning Board voted unanimously Wednesday night to strike down a controversial proposal to build high-end homes on a beloved parcel of land known locally as the blueberry barrens.