Bangor is considering future uses for a piece of land after announcing plans to close a homeless encampment on the site later this year.
Bangor city councilors on Monday voted 6-3 to approve offering Dignity First, a local homelessness nonprofit, the opportunity to lease roughly 7 acres at 55 Cleveland St. before another entity.
The decision comes roughly two weeks after the city announced plans to close the encampment at that site, known as Tent City, where more than 70 people live. The city cited an increase in illegal activity there as the reason for the closure, and aims to move everyone living there to some form of housing or shelter and close the camp by the end of the year.
If Dignity First accepts the long term lease offer, the organization could build 60 tiny homes on the land to act as permanent supportive housing for people who are homeless, according to city agenda documents. The development would be named Homeful Village.