Many communities are experiencing changes to their community’s population that may be unexpected and have immediate and impending impacts to the community and its services and infrastructure (e.g. homeless population, immigrant/refugee, New Mainers, other). There are also many communities who have people/segments of the community of all sorts who are not well represented in planning and public participation. How are Maine planners adapting to new changes in local populations, or improving the equity of planning and outreach in our communities?
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