From the Falmouth Enterprise · December 4, 1981
About 120 people crowded into the Civil Defense room at Falmouth Town Hall on December 1, 1981, as the Washburn Island Preserve Limited Partnership presented its preliminary plan for 50 house lots. Boston environmental lawyer Gregor I. McGregor, a former state assistant attorney general, spoke for the newly formed Citizens for the Protection of Waquoit Bay and Washburn Island, headed by Waquoit lawyer Winnifred Woods. He urged the board to disapprove what he called a concept lacking required detail on landings, streets, drainage, wetlands and flooding, and asked that the developers’ promises be put in writing.
The board voted unanimously to require an environmental impact review to state standards before any definitive plan. Strauss said a detailed plan would come within a month and that he was negotiating with boatyards for mainland parking. Woods warned that the planned fire-truck site would be under water in storms. It was the group’s first public action, and it held its first meeting four days later. CPWB kept up the pressure for the next 18 months, until the state took the island in June 1983.
This is CPWB’s summary of a news article. The full article and its photos are published by the Falmouth Enterprise. The page is in the Falmouth Public Library’s digital archive of the Enterprise.
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