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Documents:
Status Report - Year 1 (pdf 340K)
Progress Report 2007 - General (pdf 320K)
Discussion Paper - Energy and Waste (pdf 175K)
Discussion Paper - Housing (pdf 1014K)
Discussion Paper - Livelihood and Commerce (pdf 248K)
Discussion Paper - Natural Environment (pdf 196K)
Discussion Paper - Water Resources (pdf 228K)
Discussion Paper - Development and Growth (pdf 374K)

  
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Help Plan The Future of Martha's Vineyard

DISCUSSION PAPERS: A series of seven discussion papers has been released, summarizing the work to date and asking for feedback. To download them, please click on the titles in the column to the left.
FORUMS: Six forums were held over the past summer. The proceedings and their appendicies are available here or in the Island Plan Source Book binders in your local library:
ECONOMIC LEAKAGE STUDY: Please go to the Livelihood and Commerce page.
POCKET NEIGHBORHOODS: Ross Chapin discussed his efforts to create compact, walkable, neighborhoods with members of the Network of Planning Advisors. For more information, go to http://www.rosschapin.com/Projects/projects.htmlNEIGHBORHOOD SURVEY: Please help us identify Vineyard neighborhoods and their characteristics by taking the Neighborhood Survey about YOUR neighborhood. Click here.
The Island Plan is charting a course to the kind of future that the Vineyard community wants and is outlining a series of actions to help us navigate that course.

The Martha's Vineyard Island Plan will have a vital impact on the future of the Island… on all of our lives and those of our children. So it’s important that every Vineyarder take part in its preparation. The Island Plan will set the stage for local decision-making concerning a whole range of issues such as water quality, housing, traffic and transportation, open space, growth, and economic opportunities.

On this website, you’ll find the following sections.

  • Planning Process: Information about the planning process and the various themes and topics that it will address.
  • Get Involved: How you can participate in the process.
  • Calendar: Upcoming planning activities.
  • Discussion: On-line discussion boards about various aspects of the planning process. Leave your feedback here. Do you agree with the emerging direction or promising initive? Do you think it is a priority or do you have concerns with word choices? Are our promising initiatives in agreement with our emerging directions? Are there initiatives we're missed and should persue? Let us know!
  • Resource Center: The button on the left side of the screen gives you access to a wide range of documents including background information, meeting minutes, and proposals. (Note: This link will open a new screen and take you to the resource documents on the Martha's Vineyard Commission website. When you have found what you are looking for, either close that screen or click on the Island Plan button).

If you are a member of the Network of Planning Advisors, you should have been issued a password (contact the MVC if you forgot it) which lets your post messages to Discussion Boards and gives you access planning workrooms. Everyone is invited to join (go to Get Involved).

Click here to get a report on the first year's activities.

Recent local newspaper articles about the Island Plan can be viewed on The Martha's Vineyard Times and The Vineyard Gazette websites. 

 
   

 
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