Download: “Save Sunapee Green” Citizen Petition
Although the summer days are cooling, things are heating up at Sunapee Harbor. A citizen petition delivered to the Sunapee select board yesterday seeks to bring a halt to further changes to the lakefront on town land adjacent to the public dock and parking lot. “When it comes to re-designing our village green, the Ben Mere gazebo area and along the lake front, we need a better public process,” says Bill Boyce, one of the petition organizers. “Despite everyone’s good intentions, what we have is just not working.”
Concerns over changes to the green include the impact on public safety and use and how it cuts into the open space and view to the lake. Also, residents are increasingly upset over the introduction of personal memorials to the town common, which occurred without an approved plan or public hearings.
Petition organizers continue to collect signatures to add to those already submitted. For more information, contact Bill Boyce at Save Sunapee Green.
See proposed plan and commentary: Preserve the Park at Sunapee Harbor
The select board has not yet set a hearing date on the “beautification project” for the harbor green, which was presented to the selectmen July 14 and discussed again by the board on August 11.
Sunapee select board members are Dick Leone (chair), Steve White (vice-chair), Emma Smith, Bill Roach and Fred Gallup. The town manager is Donna Nashawaty.
Filed under: Energy & Environment, History, Land Use, Sunapee Harbor Tagged: | Environmental Protection, Sunapee Harbor
