Blue Hill Community Development is pleased to announce its most recently approved sponsored project: Save the Salt Pond Blueberry Barrens. Here is an excerpt from the project description:
Save the Salt Pond Blueberry Barrens is a grassroots effort to protect and preserve the Allen Point blueberry barrens on Route 172 in Blue Hill near the Sedgwick line for future generations. Considered one of the most iconic views on the Peninsula, the 38-acre parcel was a commercial blueberry field for decades until 2023 when it was sold to Geoff Bowley, a developer from Kennebunk with plans to create a 9-home subdivision. The community expressed its serious opposition to this development at two public Planning Board meetings in 2024, in letters to the editor, and in news coverage. Many people hope that the land can be held in a public trust for all people to enjoy and to protect the fragile ecosystem of the Salt Pond.
The project intends to raise sufficient donations to allow Blue Hill Community Development (in its role as fiscal sponsor) to purchase the land from the Developer and immediately donate it to the Blue Hill Heritage Trust. The project is already supported by substantial pledges of funds dedicated to the purchase.
More information about the project can be found in the BHCD description, on the STBB website, and on the team’s Facebook group.
