Totals

• 88 attended
• 42 oral comments
• 19 written comments
• 1 phone call

• 52 attended
• 20 oral comments
• 9 written comments
• Concerns:
  • Nourish beaches and restore dunes
  • Identify areas for sand mining
  • Lower permitting standards (costs) to allow private groups to nourish beaches
  • Place overwash sand cleared from roads back on beach
  • Allow residents to move overwash sand back on beach after storms without permits
  • Determine ownership of seawalls
  • Inventory condition of public seawalls and fund repairs
  • Take regional approach to seawalls
  • Allow new seawalls on lots that have seawalls on either side
  • Allow seawalls to be heightened
  • Do not remove seawalls to detriment of buildings
  • Allow revetments to protect buildings constructed on coastal banks post-1978
  • Fund shoreline stabilization projects
  • Allow temporary shoreline stabilization and flood control measures during storms
  • Strengthen building code standards
  • Clarify Title V regarding elevation of buildings and septic tanks
  • Amend Title V to allow septic tanks to be secured on the ground
  • Amend Executive Order 181 (Barrier Beaches) to allow public sewer
  • Differentiate between developed and natural beaches in policies and regulations (Rhode Island model)
  • Evaluate local appeal process
  • Encourage agency coordination
  • Provide incentives to communities to strengthen local regulations
  • Assist communities with the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) Community Rating System (CRS) Program
  • Educate residents on erosion risk
  • Provide best management practices (BMP) clearinghouse
  • Provide towns with guidance before storms
  • Contact local conservation groups for assistance

• 6 attended
• 4 oral comments
• 1 written comment
• Concerns:
  • Balance coastal ecosystems with development
  • Minimize new development in high-hazard areas
  • Construct new buildings on pilings
  • Relocate buildings rather than rebuild after storms
  • Protect habitats when nourishing beaches
  • Strengthen regulations
  • Provide incentives to communities
  • Streamline local appeal process
  • Coordinate between agencies
  • Explore insurance options

• 8 attended
• 4 oral comments
• 2 written comments
• Concerns:
  • Work with FEMA to update flood insurance rate maps (FIRM)
  • Do not subsidize development in high-hazard areas
  • Provide guidance on Executive Order 181 (Barrier Beaches)
  • Construct more dune walkovers
  • Locate offshore areas for sand mining
  • Place dredge material on beaches
  • Explore funding options for beach nourishment
  • Allow beach scraping
  • Streamline permitting process
  • Work with neighboring states
  • Educate towns

• 18 attended
• 10 oral comments
• 6 written comments
• 1 phone call
• Concerns:
  • Nourish beaches
  • Coordinate with U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (ACOE) to place dredge material on beaches
  • Provide beach nourishment guidelines
  • Review permitting process
  • Continue mapping
  • Update FIRMs
  • Fund repairs of private seawalls
  • Do not allow revetments
  • Explore alternative shoreline stabilization technologies
  • Limit impervious surfaces
  • Provide more parking
  • Take regional approach to management

• 4 attended
• 4 oral comments
• 1 written comment
• Concerns:
  • Educate residents on coastal hazards
  • Educate town on existing programs
  • Encourage participation in CRS
  • Update FIRMs
  • Relax fisheries constraints when reviewing beach nourishment proposals
  • Develop beach nourishment plan with ACOE
  • Study response of shoreline to sea-level rise
  • Fund research projects
  • Collect LIDAR data along Buzzards Bay in Onset & Wareham
  • Encourage coordination between agencies
  • Restore salt marshes
  • Protect coastal water quality