Commentary
Cape Wind’s Bad Play
The town of Edgartown and the Martha’s Vineyard Commission are right in their request to intervene in the case against Cape Wind. This is an important case which goes to the heart of the powers of the Cape Cod Commission and by extension the Martha’s Vineyard Commission — the only two commissions of their kind in the commonwealth.
Too Much of a Good Thing
The proposed redevelopment of what is being called Bradley Square in Oak Bluffs blends an impressive list of components and initiatives: affordable housing, space for working artists, historic preservation, an office for the Vineyard NAACP and a multicultural center.
But the project as proposed is too impressive, packing too much onto too small a piece of land in a mostly residential neighborhood already under commercial encroachment.
What follows is an edited collection of reader feedbacks from the Gazette Web site in response to a story about Edgartown seeking to intervene on the side of the Cape Cod Commission in the case against Cape Wind before the Energy Facilities Siting Board. The complete and unedited collection of comments can be read at mvgazette.com.
The marathon of federal public hearings on the Cape Wind draft environmental impact statement is over. The federal Minerals Management Service got the message loud and clear. Cape Wind is the wrong step in the right direction.
WHILE ROME BURNS
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
Last February, Menemsha lost one of its memorable characters, a genuinely nice guy and a good friend, when Carl Whitman passed. He died the way he lived, unafraid to face the pain and suffering with which he would inevitably deal.