ROCKLAND, Maine ― The city council is forming volunteer committees tasked with coming up with recommendations for how more housing units can be developed in Rockland.One ad-hoc committee will look at how more apartments can be developed on the upper floors of downtown buildings, and a second will work on developing recommendations for repurposing a former school building into housing. The city council first created these committees in 2017; however neither produced any concrete results.

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