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January 23, 2008

Portland wins court case against scrapyard

Portland may have succeeded in its attempt to move a scrap yard to make way for development in the city's Bayside neighborhood.

Last week, the Maine Supreme Judicial Court decided that the Portland City Council acted legally when it adopted new environmental and land-use regulations for scrap-metal recycling yards in 2004, according to the Portland Press Herald. E. Perry Iron & Metal Co., a scrap-metal yard that has been in the Bayside neighborhood since 1917, has resisted the city's efforts to relocate the business to make way for new development.

A lawyer for the company said the new regulations, which would force the company to submit annual soil and groundwater samples and undergo site plan review if the city has no site plan on file, could make it impossible for a scrap yard to continue operating in Portland's Bayside neighborhood, the paper said.

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