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December 5, 2007

Sanford OKs methadone-clinic moratorium

Sanford's Town Council has responded quickly to a proposal from a company that wants to open a local methadone clinic.

The Town Council yesterday unanimously approved a 90-day moratorium on methadone clinics in town, which is designed to give it a chance to write and adopt an ordinance that addresses methadone clinics, according to the Portland Press Herald. The move was precipitated by a proposal from Florida-based Colonial Management Group, which on Friday met with Sanford officials to discuss opening a methadone clinic in Sanford's downtown, the paper said. Colonial Management operates Penobscot County Metro Treatment Center in Bangor, one of Maine's eight methadone clinics.

Sanford's business community voiced its opposition at the council meeting. "This will drive people out of the downtown area," Sanford Chamber of Commerce President Rick Stanley told the council, according to the paper. "I can tell you that there is not one person [on the chamber's board of directors] in favor of having this in the downtown."

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