Virginia Working Waterfronts Workshop

Watermen, water-dependent business owners, and representatives from water-related organizations from the Eastern Shore are encouraged to participate in the Virginia Working Waterfronts Workshop on February 26, 2014, locally from a satellite location at the Eastern Shore Community College Workforce Development Building in Melfa (29300 Lankford Hwy). 

 

The workshop will be held from 9:00 am – 3:30 pm.

 

The Eastern Shore’s working waterfronts are of great historic, economic, and ...

cultural value. Unfortunately they are threatened by natural, social, economic, and regulatory stressors.

The workshop, which is being sponsored by the Virginia Coastal Zone Management Program, will be an opportunity to share ideas and suggestions about the issues that are impacting Virginia’s – and the Eastern Shore’s - water access and working waterfronts, and to provide input on development of strategies to keep Virginia’s waterfronts working! The Virginia CZM Program and its partners particularly need to hear from Virginia’s working watermen and businesses.

This event is the first coastal-wide effort to focus on protecting and enhancing water access and working waterfront infrastructure. 

 

 Response to the workshop so far has been tremendous with registrants representing many sectors including watermen on the Eastern Shore, but more voices from the working waterfront community are needed. The Accomack-Northampton Planning District Commission arranged the opportunity for Eastern Shore residents to participate in the workshop at the Eastern Shore Community College satellite location recognizing that travel to Gloucester Point, the other location for the workshop, may otherwise have made participation difficult.

Registration is required to attend. The event is free, but space is limited. Light breakfast, lunch, and refreshments will be provided. Register today! Call Curt Smith, Director of Planning for the Accomack-Northampton Planning District Commission at 787-2936 or csmith@a-npdc.org. 

 

For more details on the Virginia Working Waterfront Initiative Partnership and the workshop visit, http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event?oeidk=a07e7x0rfhj7a97d625&llr=nyolw7cab.

 

Accomack-Northampton Planning District Commission

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