Cape Poge District, Edgartown

Name: Cape Poge District
Town: Edgartown
Status: Designated
Designation Date: Thursday, July 14, 1988
Description: The Cape Poge District was designated to prevent damage from erosion, to preserve and enhance the character of views, to maintain the quality of well water, to enhance and protect recreation uses, to avoid impacts associated with certain recreational uses, to protect the quality of fin and shell fisheries, to maintain and enhance the fishing economy and to promote and protect wildlife habitats.
Boundaries: mean high water line; includes pond waters
General Restrictions: permitted uses such as fishing; special permit from Planning Board for any development, including comments from Board of Health, Cape Poge DCPC Advisory Committee, etc.; use of herbicides, pesticides and chemical fertilizers prohibited; further subdivision prohibited; more than one dwelling per lot prohibited; non-municipal piers prohibited
Event

Date: 6/23/1988

Public Hearing for designation
Event

Date: 7/14/1988

Designation vote
Event

Date: 6/16/1994

Public Hearing to amend boundary and guidelines
Event

Date: 6/21/1994

Vote to amend boundary and guidelines, conformance of proposed regs
Event

Date: 3/20/2003

Public Hearing on conformance of proposed amendment to regulations
Event

Date: 4/4/2003

MVC Vote of conformance. (Town did not vote amendment in)

Office location:

Office location:

The Stone Building
33 New York Avenue
Oak Bluffs, MA 02557

Telephone: 508-693-3453
Fax: 508-693-7894

Mailing Address

Mailing address:

Martha's Vineyard Commission
P.O. Box 1447
Oak Bluffs, MA 02557

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