The Stan Mayfield Working Waterfronts Florida Forever grant Program was created by the 2008 Florida Legislature and is administered by Florida Communities Trust within the Florida Department of Environmental Protection. Grant funds are used to acquire working waterfront lands in fee simple or less-than-fee simple interest. Working waterfronts are...
On the York River, conflicts are becoming increasingly common between waterfront property owners, recreational and commercial boaters, aquaculture industries and others seeking to use the Commonwealth's water resources. The historical balance between working waterfronts and residential development is shifting to a waterfront that is predominantly...
Virginia’s Middle Peninsula Chesapeake Bay Public Access Authority, the first entity of its kind in the United States, was enabled under the leadership and auspices of the Middle Peninsula Planning District Commission. The Authority was created to identify, acquire, and manage passive and low-impact water...
Portland, Maine, has over 30 years of experience in balancing maritime and non-marine uses along its waterfront. Compatibility between marine and non-marine uses has always been important to the City's approach to waterfront zoning. Residential uses and hotels are not allowed, while other uses are...
Since the inception of New York’s Coastal Management Program in 1982, many local governments throughout the state’s coastal region have participated in the Department of State Division of Coastal Resource’s signature effort – its Local Waterfront Revitalization Program (LWRP), and developed comprehensive land and water-use...
The Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance is an alliance of more than 700 organizations with ties to the waterways of New York and New Jersey. Together they are working to transform the waters of New York and New Jersey Harbor into clean and accessible places to learn,...
Maine has a long tradition of public access to private coastal property. Notably, Maine is one of only a few U.S. states where coastal property owners own to the mean low tide line subject to a colonial-era easement for "fishing, fowling and navigation.” Yet in recent decades,...
Gloucester Harbor (Massachusetts) is the center of one of the country’s most important commercial fishing communities; its docks are lined with vessels of various types and its waterfront is dominated by facilities and services associated with the seafood industry. In recent decades, as groundfish stocks...