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Nantucket planners present three Easy Street designs after $500K planning grant and $1.2B risk estimate
Summary
At the Nov. 17 NPDC meeting, the town’s coastal resilience coordinator presented three concept designs to reduce downtown flood risk on Easy Street and Broad Street — a flood wall, adaptable road‑raising to 6.5 ft NAVD88 and a full raise to 8 ft — and said a planning grant of just over $500,000 supports design and modeling work.
Abby D'Amelina, chair of the Nantucket Planning & Economic Development Commission, convened the commission on Nov. 17, 2025, to hear a coastal‑resilience update that placed the downtown Easy Street area at the top of the town’s priorities.
Leah, the town’s coastal resilience coordinator, told commissioners the Coastal Resilience Plan (endorsed in 2022) has moved from recommendations into design and implementation work. She said the town received a planning grant “a little over half a million dollars” from the Office of Coastal Zone Management to fund the first structural project and updated risk modeling. “If we took no action … we could expect to see $1,200,000,000 in…
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