Maine Policy Review Cited in Bangor Daily News

An article in Maine Policy Review, “From Resilience Planning to Action: Small Towns and Big Costs” was cited in the Bangor Daily News article, “Hancock County towns grapple with keeping coastal roads above rising seas.”

The news article highlights the urgent infrastructure challenges in Hancock County, where flooding frequently threatens to isolate peninsula and island communities. To contextualize these local struggles, the article draws on the MPR study authored by Bill Zoellick and colleagues, which identifies the “valley of death” between planning and construction. Zoellick’s research underscores that while towns are successful at initial planning, the staggering costs of engineering and permitting, often reaching ten times the initial design budget, create a nearly insurmountable fiscal gap.