Vineyard Haven Harbor DCPC

1999

June 11, 1999

Tisbury Town Officials Weigh Nomination of Harbor District

Ethan Kelley
Vineyard Haven Harbor DCPC
Vineyard Haven harbor
Tisbury planning board
Tisbury select board

Tisbury officials this week wrestled with whether the town should establish a district of critical planning concern (DCPC) for Vineyard Haven harbor, an area that currently has a detailed zoning plan for the shore but no controls for the water.

At a meeting Tuesday night session with the town planning board, members of the board of selectmen explained their rationale for considering a DCPC -- a Martha’s Vineyard Commission overlay planning district -- as a mechanism for regulating activities on the harbor.

May 21, 1999

Tisbury Looks to Commission As Way to Protect Its Harbor

Ethan Kelley
Vineyard Haven Harbor DCPC
Vineyard Haven harbor
Tisbury select board

The Tisbury board of selectmen took the first step this week toward regulating activity in Vineyard Haven harbor by placing a proposal on the table to nominate the waterway as a District of Critical Planning Concern (DCPC).

If the plan moves forward, much of the harbor could be designated by the Martha’s Vineyard Commission as a resource to be protected, beginning a process of establishing development guidelines for the area.

1998

September 11, 1998

Future of Vineyard Haven Harbor Inspires Public Debate

Peter Savodnik
Vineyard Haven harbor
Vineyard Haven Harbor DCPC
Businesses
Tisbury select board
Beach Road

Carmel Gamble glared at the chain-link fence surrounding the beachfront lot next door to her Vineyard Haven cottage. “This is not the Vineyard Haven I knew,” said Miss Gamble, a veterinary technician and self-described “clown on sabbatical” who returned to Martha’s Vineyard two years ago after five years in Hawaii. “But this ugly steel chain-link fence, I mean, what we love about the Vineyard is that it’s beautiful. That’s why people come here,” she said.

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