Comments for Wellfleet National Seashore Homeowners Association

Comment on Wind Turbine Debate Heats Up by venturen

venturen — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:34:02 +0000

I am involved with saveourseashore and I am mystified why we would vandalize stakes that we were unaware that were there. Mr Karlson does protest just a little to much. Sure we are against building a 400 foot tower in the middle of largest wooded area in Wellfleet and the National Seashore. A place where people hike, hunt, and ride Since the beginning our questions go unanswered from the WEC. Could it be there is an ugly tone from the WEC? We question the WEC’s attempt to be the first in the Nation to build a 400 foot tower(6 1/2 times higher that the ranger fire tower) in a NATIONAL PARK. We have asked very relevant questions which go unanswered while public documents are held out of sight for months. Freedom of Information requests have had to be filed! Does that sound like an open process? We even attended meeting that they went to executive session to avoid answering questions…which is illegal and again not very “OPEN”. I would very much like to make this debate about the merits. Things like why estimates of electricity are 30% higher than real world and what will happen when this project loses money. Or how other projects have had to make payment and even buy houses up to a mile away. Again impacting the money making ability of this project. Or why every other town in the area has stopped their turbine projects. Read about Vinalhaven a small island where they have erected turbines, setting towns people against each other and people abandoning their homes.

Comment on Wind Turbines Advancing at White Crest Site by venturen

venturen — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 22:44:47 +0000

I see where the cleared headed people of Chatham stopped the building of a wind turbine.

http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090813/NEWS/908130316

They respected the neighbors…perish the thought! Wellfleet is just steam rolling their project in the heart of the seashore! And Chatham’s turbine was 60 feet as opposed to 450 foot monstrosities planned by Wellfleet!

Comment on Zoning Board Turns Down Appeals of Blasch Building Permit by HerbG

HerbG — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:45:56 +0000

We are living with the effects of flawed policies of previous administrations of the National Seashore and failure of earlier Wellfleet Selectmen to address zoning issues. All of us lived for years with misinformation by the National Seashore on their authority to promulgate zoning regulations within the Seashore boundaries. Because of this misinformation the towns in the Seashore did not address for many years the zoning issues which were actually in their sphere of authority. Unfortunately, Wellfleet failed to address the zoning issues on a timely basis even after the National Seashore acknowledged that they did not have the zoning authority they had previously claimed. For example, I believe Eastham has had an architectural review board in place for several years.
— Herb Gstalder, President, GUPACA

Comment on Orleans Historic Preservationist Supports Tighter Zoning in Seashore by gooz

gooz — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 01:46:22 +0000

The process of “engagement” between community interests and private ones, in this instance involving housing developments whose scale, size and mass forever alters the amenities of place, is precisely what is needed.

Here in Wellfleet a concerted effort is underway to try and get the Town of Wellfleet to adopt Eastham’s model of Site Plan Review to provide us with just such a process of reasonable engagement for “mutual understanding”.

I believe adopting Eastham’s SPR (with revisions) for Wellfleet’s needs is the best zoning method of engagement we can ever hope to devise, to enhance our prospects of promoting and protecting our community interests, while still allowing for reasonable fulfillment of private interests.

Trust and courage to embrace this zoning engagement change is all that is needed to make it happen and be successful.

Comment on The Blasch Project at “The Gut” on Griffin Island by TonyS

TonyS — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:24:09 +0000

If the large-scale house/McMansion trend continues, Wellfleet will look like the Hamptons. This is not what the Seashore was created for. Our properties will become acquisition targets for those wanting to build these trophy homes, resulting in higher assessments for all property owners. The present character of the town would disappear.

Comment on What Other Topics Are You Concerned About? by TonyS

TonyS — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 22:13:58 +0000

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