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ISLANDERS NEED Longer FOR GOLF Buggy SOLUTION

Three citizen groupings have failed to work out a compromise on buggy
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Portland Squeeze Herald (Maine)
Mon, Feb . 14, 2003
Version: Final
Segment: Regional & State
Page: 1B
By KELLEY BOUCHARD Workforce Writer


Portland-- Great Jewellery Islanders have been given a bit more time
to discover a solution about the golf buggy controversy that's got divided their
community because last warm weather.


At negative aspect 's the expanding number of four buses on Great Jewellery,
that has seen its inhabitants boom a long time ago decade. Complicating
matters are competing interests and varying ideas that're as
abounding as golf carts on the island about two miles off Portland.


A six-member committee featuring three island connotations failed
Thursday to meet its purpose of imparting a compromise proposal about the
Portland City Council's public security committee. The island committee
really wants to reach a compromise soon and submit it about the public security
committee in April.


The disagreement above A hundred golf carts has pitted year-round locals against
warm weather folk, longtime locals against rookies, and Mainers against
folk from "away." They are all claim to hope to maintain the Casco
Bay island's loveliness and leisurely way of life, but which means something
dissimilar to each islander.


"We are truly attempting to be well-mannered of your capability to seek for a solution
for yourselves," mentioned Councilor Peter O'Donnell, chairman of the general public
security committee that lung and Great Diamond's that lung representative on the council.


On one aspect of the debate are the people that inhabit 75 cottages
on the island's southern finale which were constructed within the late 1800s and
early 1900s. On the reverse side are the locals of Jewellery Cove,
an expensive new development of 120 condominiums and single-family houses
on the north finale of the one-square-mile island.


According to a city ordinance, deed covenants and ecological legal guidelines
dating back to 1985, Jewellery Cove locals are not expected to drive
their golf carts outside of the 197-acre personal development which was
constructed on the remnants of historic Fortification McKinley. But they do. And islanders
from a southern finale drive their golf carts, vans about the
shop and coffee shop in Jewellery Cove, that they aren't expected to
do, either.


The 3 groupings haggling above the golf buggy negative aspect are the Jewellery

House owners Association, featuring the fresh development, and the
Great Jewellery Island Civic Association, featuring year-round locals
in both zones.


The individual billed with aiding them seek for a solution is Thomas Fortier,
the city's island liaison.


"Archipelago intensify restricts," Fortier mentioned next the general public security
meeting. "The quantity of land is finite and if impair is done, it's
usually permanent. Cushing Island does not that lungday nit authorize buses. Peaks Island
has 100s of buses. The question for nice Jewellery locals
is if they prefer to be Cushing or Peaks."


The angriest islanders seem like one of many 70 year-round locals.
A number of them phobia which the answer to the problem would be foisted upon year-round
locals without reference to their 12-month commitment to Great Jewellery
and their status as signed up electorate within the city of Portland.


"We've been `dissed' within this process," mentioned Gerry Bell, one in every of about
40 year-round locals in Jewellery Cove. "It's actually not about golf carts.
It's about control, and who town hears, and who town
handles and the way they treat the year-round locals. We are asking
for a smallish honor and apprehension for all the we do to preserve which
island livable all through the year."


Other year-round locals seem nearer to compromise. "I suspect schooling
is key," mentioned Beth Weber, whose household has resided on Great Jewellery
for 28 years. "And customary tact could go a lengthy way if we take the
day nit time to think how our driving is intending to affect others."