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Nantucket harbor-plan committee finalizes goals, sets timeline for public draft
Summary
The Nantucket Harbor Plan Update Committee refined goals and objectives for commercial waterfronts, boating and navigation, harbor safety and coastal resilience and asked staff to produce a cleaned draft of the goals and objectives for committee review and public release later this spring.
The Nantucket Harbor Plan Update Committee met Feb. 10 and worked through remaining goals and objectives for the harbor plan, deciding language on boating and navigation, commercial waterfronts, harbor safety and coastal resiliency and asking staff to circulate a clean version of the goals and objectives ahead of further review.
Committee members emphasized managing competing uses in the harbors and adding clearer language about landside facilities and enforcement presence on the water. Rachel Freeman, acting chair, said the primary aim was to "finish up our first draft of the harbor plan," and the group agreed to move some recommendations between sections so boating, working waterfronts and resilience measures sit in the most relevant chapters.
The committee kept a broadly worded boating-and-navigation goal — to provide "a boating environment that promotes safety and manages competing uses while…
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