This is a repeat of the update asking for your signature. THANK YOU if you've already signed the newspaper ad. If you haven't please consider doing so. Here's the information: Sen. Thibodeau and Rep. Gideon Maine State Legislature: Save Frenchman Bay and Acadia National Park Maine from a Mega Cruise Ships Pier! by Sarah Steinhardt · 937 supporters PETITION UPDATE Please help! A new opportunity to sign Sarah Steinhardt New York, NY MAY 19, 2017 — Please take a minute now to go to this link (or cut and paste) to get to our simple purple Google Form, where you can put your name and your area. The actual letter that will be published the week of June 9th in the Mount Desert Islander newspaper is just below the link! Thank you for this! Our deadline is May 29th. Democracy for Bar Harbor, Maine! https://goo.gl/forms/S6LcgBmklQXqTSCN2 We support Article13, the Citizen’s Initiative, a Bar Harbor Land Use Ordinance Amendment that: ✓ Allows smaller cruise ships to continue to dock, ✓ Allows any size cruise ship to continue to anchor, ✓ Protects current passenger caps, revenues, and businesses, and ✓ Gives the voters of Bar Harbor control over future change ! We support Article 13 because : 1) Every citizen deserves the right to a vote in deciding how the town of Bar Harbor develops. 2) Article 13 gives voters the only opportunity, through a vote on zoning, to have any legal control over cruise ship visits. If only Article 12 is approved, it would allow development of a massive cruise ship port and pier at the ferry terminal site, in advance and sight unseen, of whatever plan may be developed in the future . 3) Citizens deserve a community wide planning process, not a committee driven process where only a few decide what our Town, our Island, and our National Park becomes. We the Residents of Bar Harbor want our Town to own the ferry terminal, but we reject the Maine Department of Transportation’s heavy-handed attempt to influence our vote or to punish us if citizens vote to approve Article 13. The Department should not attempt to interfere with our legal right to determine what our town becomes. We the Residents of Frenchman Bay and Mount Desert Island want our concerns heard before our Bay, our Island and, for many of us, our way of life are changed forever. We the Citizens of the United States, from all parts of our country, also want our concerns to be heard before the character of our National Park is changed forever. We believe that an open and inclusive process, real democracy, is needed to protect the unique, irreplaceable beauty of our town, our island and our national park. Please Vote YES on Article 13!