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QUESTIONS and ANSWERS

• Where was Estuary Park planned, and what is proposed? (See also Maps of the Estuary Park Site.)

• What did the 1991 General Plan propose as Estuary Park?

• What is the value of a General Plan, and what is the purpose of zoning laws?

• What have developers proposed on the park space?

• Is the idea of Estuary Park still alive?

• What is the Estuary Park Action Committee?

• Why was E.P.A.C. formed?

• What is E.P.A.C. trying to achieve?

• How has the Planning Board responded?

• How has the Planning Department reacted?

• What was the surprising offer by one owner not to develop, but to sell?

• What current shape and location of the park are possible?

• How can balanced development of the Estuary waterfront serve living space, decent transportation, schools, and healthy neighborhoods for all the people, not just shelter for those who can afford an exclusive set of walls?

• What does the community demand from housing developers?

• What are possible uses of open space on the Estuary?

• Why can’t the waterfront be owned by developers?

• Can housing be built within the Tideland Trust?

• Why is the Estuary Park site safer to develop as open space than as housing?

• When will be the next time that developers will bombard the Board with plans for housing on the park land?

• What has E.P.A.C. been doing to raise money to buy the park land?

• Why does it take time to raise money from funds already accumulated for park land?

• Does the destiny of the park depend on you making your opinion known?

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