Design Guidelines
The Tidewater Master Planned Development District creates a new neighborhood in Falmouth,
connecting Clearwater Drive to the Presumpscot River basin and Casco Bay (fig A.1). The
purpose of the District is to allow the development of the Tidewater area into a high quality,
mixed use commercial-residential neighborhood while preserving a significant portion of the
area as open space including much of the historic Tidewater Farm. The range of development
echoes the historic settlement pattern of saltwater farm to residential village to commercial
center through an escalating density and scale. This transition is defined by two distinct
components of the neighborhood, Tidewater Farm and Tidewater Village; read more..