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Provincetown :: Wednesday, February 8th 2012
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Notes from Land's End: Mar. 14
The future of the Province Lands Dune Shack
By Laura Shabott
March 14th, 2010
Public land since colonial times, the Province Lands are home to seventeen dune shacks. These structures have altered the lives of generations of families, hundreds of artists, writers and hermits.
| How does a group of people who love a place, its memories and values, communicate to legislators the needs of the people, the dwellings and their environment? |
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Now under the jurisdiction of the National Park Service, more than twenty people convened on March 12th to create recommendations for the Cape Cod National Seashore’s Dune Shack District Preservation and Use Plan.
The subcommittee comprised of town representatives, National Park Service employees, CCNS employees, families, non profit managers and long term families have a daunting agenda:
|  George E. Price and Paul Tasha. |
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1. To design the future use of the dune shacks protecting the families, residents and lessees that currently use them.
2. To recommend alternatives for future use.
3. To create legislative language to convey this vision.
This very important plan will be used for an Environmental Assessment (EA) undertaken by the National Park Service. To facilitate this formidable task, Patrick Field, managing director of Consensus Building Institute, and his highly skilled staff create the formation of the written proposal within the deadline of June 2010.
John Thomas, on a town seat, is the voice of legislative reason, pointing out where wording could be misunderstood to the detriment of the subcommittee. Paul Tasha, town seat and dune shack dweller, speaks out for preservation of current dune shack use. Member of the public Julie Schecter urged the continuance of weekly leases for people that come once a year.
Regina Binder, a representative of the Compact, wrote her Masters on the Dune Shacks and commented on the need for clear parameters of use. George E. Price, Superintendent of the Cape Cod National Seashore, gave astute case studies that illustrated the importance of language in formulating future public policy.
How does a group of people who love a place, its memories and values, communicate to legislators the needs of the people, the dwellings and their environment? This is the missive of the Subcommittee on Dune Shack District Preservation and Use Plan. I wish them luck, wisdom and clarity.
www.provincetown-ma.gov
www.nps.gov
www.cbuilding.org
Artistic bon vivant Laura Shabott loves to write about Provincetown. A graduate of the SMFA, Boston, she is practiced in writing, acting and painting.
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