A three-year-old program of the Maine Development Foundation aims to create “greener” downtowns–that is, downtowns that save existing historic buildings, provide links to hiking and biking trails and use land space efficiently, among other things. Roxanne Eflin, the foundation’s program director, tells MPBN’s Morning Edition host Irwin Gratz that the initiative offers matching funds to stretch its $225,000 budget.

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