This page is a work in progress. It supplements the MVC Adaptation Context Booklets being developed for each Island town in 2020, with links to policies, regulations, plans, reports, and other resources that relate to climate-change adaptation on the Island.
ISLANDWIDE RESOURCES
POLICIES AND REGULATIONS
Enabling Act of the Steamship Authority (amended 2016)
Districts of Critical Planning Concern (DCPCs) (1975–2014)
MVC Development of Regional Impact (DRI) Checklist (2017)
MVC Development of Regional Impact (DRI) policies (2006–2019)
PLANS, REPORTS, AND OTHER RESOURCES
A Meeting of Land and Sea (2017)
Analysis of Coastal Erosion on Martha’s Vineyard (2008)
CDC vulnerability index maps (2016)
Community Resilience Building Workshop summaries (2020)
Development Permitting Process on Martha’s Vineyard (2008)
Dukes County Flood Insurance Study (2010)
Flood Zones and Affected Buildings in Dukes County (2019)
Hazard Mitigation Plan for Seven Towns in Dukes County (2015)
Inventory of Historic Buildings in Dukes County (2017)
Living Shoreline Presentation (~2015)
Map of Chapter 61 Lands and Farmland Soils (2020)
Map of Island topography and water features (mid-1970s)
Martha’s Vineyard Organics Composting Study (2017)
Martha’s Vineyard Regional Transportation Plan 2020–2040 (2019)
Martha’s Vineyard Statistical Profile (2019)
Martha’s Vineyard Transportation Improvement Plan (TIP) (2019)
Martha’s Vineyard Wastewater Management Study (2010)
Mass Coast Flood Risk Model 2020: Sea Level Rise and Coastal Flooding Viewer
Municipal Vulnerability Preparedness (MVP) Program
MV Land Bank Memorandum of Aspirations (2019)
MVC Climate Crisis Resolution (2019)
MVC presentation on SSA financing and operations (2019)
MVC presentation to Chilmark Climate Change Working Group (2019)
Oak Bluffs Coastal Services Valuation Report (2017)
Population projections (2017–2018)
Presentation on SSA finances and operations (2019)
Town water and wellhead protection maps (2016)
Wetland elevation monitoring presentation (2016)
STATE, REGIONAL, AND FEDERAL RESOURCES
POLICIES AND REGULATIONS
Applying the Massachusetts Coastal Wetlands Regulations (2017)
Environmental Permitting in Massachusetts (2003)
Federal Historic Preservation Laws (2018)
FEMA Requirements and Technical Guidance
Global Warming Solutions Act (2008)
Green Communities Designation and Grant Program
MA Building Code and Stretch Energy Code (2017)
MA Coastal Program Policies (2011)
MA Flood Hazard Management Program
MA Habitat Conservation Plan for Piping Plover, 2016
MA Homeowner's Handbook to Prepare for Coastal Storms, 2020
MA Title 5 (Septic System Regulations) (2016)
MA Waterways Regulations (2017)
MA Wetlands Protection Act Regulations (2014)
PLANS, REPORTS, AND OTHER RESOURCES
EPA Climate Adaptation Resources and Guidance
MA Climate Change Adaptation Report (2011)
MA Hurricane Resources for Emergency Managers
MA Integrated State Hazard Mitigation and Climate Adaptation Plan (2018)
MA Sea Level Rise Guide (2013)
Massachusetts Coastal Infrastructure Inventory and Assessment Project (2009)
Massachusetts Coastal Zone map (2014)
MassWildlife and Climate Adaptation
Overview of Acidification in the Northeast Region (~2015)
Protecting Coastal Property from Major Storm Damage (2008)
StormSmart Coasts Factsheets (2009–2016)
CLIMATE ACTION/ADAPTATION PLANS
1854 Ceded Territory Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment and Adaptation Plan
Climate and Energy Plan for Berkshire County
Climate Change Adaptation Plan for Akwasasne
Duxbury Climate Vulnerability Assessment and Action Plan
East Hampton, NY Climate Action Plan
Great Marsh Coastal Adaptation Plan - Part 1
Great Marsh Coastal Adaptation Plan - Part 2
MA Hazard Mitigation and Climate Change Adaptation Plan
MAGIC Climate Change Resiliency Plan (includes Concord)
Nantucket Climate Action Plan (draft)
Pioneer Valley Climate Action and Clean Energy Plan
Planning for Public Health Impacts of Climate Change in Northampton
Shinnecook Indian Nation Climate Change Adaptation Plan
Suffolk County, NY Climate Action Plan