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Maine city grapples with how to regulate group homes in residential neighborhoods

City officials in Rockland are trying to figure out how to regulate group homes, which some residents feel are popping up in neighborhoods with insufficient notice and without oversight. Earlier this summer, news that a home for recently released inmates was going to open at a house on Talbot Avenue shook neighbors, who hadn’t been approached by the woman who bought the home and was organizing the project. But city officials are limited in how they can address neighbors’ concerns.

 

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