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(Credit: Martin Burke) A dozen Shelter Island residents have worked tirelessly with volunteer Project Manager Edward Hindin, Councilmen Mike Bebon and Albert Dickson and consultants Peter Flinker and Larissa Brown to create a new Comprehensive Plan. But they have not worked in a vacuum. They have opened the process to as many people as possible. Have they heard from you? More than 1,000 people responded to an early survey that helped spark thoughts about a new Comprehensive Plan, meant to become a guide for what full- and part-time residents and business operators would...

Simplify. That’s the word of the moment for members of the Comprehensive Plan Advisory Committee. The members spent Monday evening reviewing suggestions from consultants about the upcoming April 22 workshop aimed at eliciting feedback from the public about a vision for the town’s future. Consultants Peter Flinker of Dodson and Flinker and Larissa Brown of Larissa Brown & Associates outlined extensive information and charts to help leaders of small group discussions to elicit ideas from participants on a single question: Putting costs and other potentially limiting factors aside, what do p...

(Credit:Courtesy Image) A very dedicated and hard working group of Islanders — full- and part-timers — led by Project Director Ed Hindin and Massachusetts consultants Peter Flinker of Dodson and Flinker in Florence and Larissa Brown of Larissa Brown & Associates in Cambridge — have spent months helping to update a previous Comprehensive Plan to guide development of the town. They have studied the 1993 Comprehensive Plan and another that was attempted but never adopted in 2008 and were guided by the two consultants and Councilmen Mike Bebon and Albert Dickson about...