All WWWF abstracts and bios presented in order of appearance as outlined on conf agenda
TUES SEPT 29
11 AM PLENARY
TRACK I‐ Economic, Social/Cultural, and Environmental Impacts of and on Working Waterfronts
Valuing Working Waterways and Waterfronts in Coastal Communities: Economic Impacts
Impact of working waterfronts to the ocean economy
Charles Colgan,Muskie School of Public Service, University of Southern Maine
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Charles S. Colgan is professor of public policy and management and chair of the Community Planning and Development Graduate Program in the Edmund S. Muskie School of Public Service at the University of Southern Maine. Colgan is also associate director of the Center for Business and Economic Research at the University of Southern Maine and the University of Maine Center for Tourism Research and Outreach. He served in the Maine State Planning Office under three administrations. Colgan has a B.A. from Colby College and a Ph.D. in economic history from the University of Maine.
Analysis of regional trends and comparison of methods to assess local dependence on marine industries
Eric Thunberg, NOAA Fisheries, Northeast Fisheries Science Center
Abstract: NOAA tracked trends in marine industry performance and relative importance of marine industries among coastal states along the US East Coast. Marine sectors were grouped into seafood, shipping, and boating related industries constituting 14 industries, and 1998-2007 trends assessed using data from the US Census Bureau’s County Business Patterns. Two analytical methods to measure regional dependence and the relative importance of marine industries were compared: (1) the location quotient method and (2) the total contribution approach based on Social Accounting Matrices (SAM). The first approach is one of the most commonly applied techniques of economic base analysis. The latter approach incorporates direct effects as well as indirect and induced activities (attributed to local support industries). The results indicate the importance of identifying and including the economic effects of supporting industries when measuring and tracking temporal changes in marine sector dependence over time.
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1 PM PLENARY
TRACK II‐ Successful Local, Regional, State, and Federal Strategies Addressing Working Waterfront
North Carolina’s Working Waterfronts and Access Initiative: from Study Committee to Implementation
Abstract:In 2006, the NC General Assembly created the Waterfront Access Study Committee (WASC) in response to public concern over the loss of traditional waterfronts, increased residential development, and rising property taxes and market demand throughout the state’s coastal region. The WASC, chaired by the NC Sea Grant Executive Director, held a series of public meetings to gather information on local land use management, zoning and development trends, research incentives to protect waterfront diversity and to evaluate their feasibility. This information was compiled into a final report that was submitted to the General Assembly in April 2007. Recommendations on how to address NC’s waterfront access needs included retaining and enhancing working waterfronts and public access; creating a present-use tax valuation for working waterfront property; developing methods for PDRs and TDRs; and new approaches to planning and zoning.In August 2007, the General Assembly authorized $20 million for the acquisition and protection of waterfront diversity, known as the Waterfront Access and Marine Industry (WAMI) Fund that would be administered by the NC Division of Marine Fisheries, who established four priority funding areas: public docking facilities, public boat ramps, fishing access and other marine industry facilities. Over 170 proposals were received, from which 13 projects were ultimately selected for funding and most are underway or have already been completed. This plenary will provide an overview of the WASC and WAMI Fund processes, insights about the funded projects, and lessons learned.
Lisa Schiavinato is alaw, policy and community development specialist with North Carolina Sea Grant. Sheis co-director of the North Carolina Coastal Resources Law, Planning, and Policy Center, where she conducts research, provides outreach, and writes publications on ocean and coastal law issues, working with coastal communities, state and local government agencies, and the North Carolina General Assembly.Her areas of expertise include ocean and coastal law, land-use law, renewable energy, and natural hazard mitigation.Schiavinato is president-elect of The Coastal Society. In 2009 she received the NC Governor’s Conservation Achievement Award for Natural Resource Scientist of the Year.She earned a B.A. from the University of South Florida and J.D. with certificate in environmental and land-use law from the University of Florida Levin College of Law.
Michael Voiland is executive director of the North Carolina Sea Grant College Program and the Water Resources Research Institute of the University of North Carolina. Voiland served as chair of the North Carolina Waterfront Access Study Committee (WASC) in 2006-2007. Prior to these positions, Voiland served for 30 years at Cornell University as sport fisheries/tourism specialist, program leader, and associate director for the New York Sea Grant Institute; Assistant Director of Government Affairs; and Assistant Director of Cornell Cooperative Extension and the Cornell Agricultural Experiment Station. Voiland holds bachelor's and master's degrees in geography from the State University of New York at Albany, and a Ph.D. in natural resource management from the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry at Syracuse University.
Louis Danielis director of the North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries, where he oversees all coastal fisheries management efforts in the state as conducted through approximately 300 full-time and temporary staff.From 2007 to present, Daniel has administered the state’s Waterfront Access and Marine Industry Fund.Daniel represented the state on the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council, assisted in the administration of the state’s Fisheries Reform Act, and served as technical advisor to the state’s Marine Fisheries Council. Daniel holds a B.S. in biology from Wake Forest University, an M.S. in marine biology from the College of Charleston, and a Ph.D. in marine science from the Virginia Institute of Marine Science at the College of William and Mary. He is a member of the American Institute of Fisheries Research Biologists.
Gordon Myersis executive director of the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission, a statewide resource management agency of six divisions, employing over 600 permanent employees and tapping a budget of approximately $60 million. His service with the Commission began in 1991, and he rose to the position of director of operations before his appointment as executive director in 2008. In 2006-07, he served on the NC Waterfront Access Study Committee and was involved in the review, design, and development of access enhancement projects proposed to and supported under the state’s Waterfront Access and Marine Industry Fund. Myers holds a degree in civil engineering from NC State University in Raleigh.
2:45 PM BREAKOUTS
▲TRACK I ‐ Economic, Social/Cultural, and Environmental Impacts of and on Working Waterfronts
Recreational, Commercial, and Industrial WWF Uses: Economic Impacts
Working waterfront infrastructure and aquaculture: a local public policy dialog in Tidewater Virginia
Lewie Lawrence, Middle Peninsula Chesapeake Bay Public AccessAuthority
Abstract: Working waterfront infrastructure and aquaculture is a complex economic, environmental, land and water resource and use conflict issue. As many coastal localities struggle with becoming less rural and more suburban, balancing growth, preserving coastal character and culture, and the delivery of public services forms the basis for a local public policy conundrum: to what extent will our future economic fabric rely on the opportunities presented from a coastal environment and what public policies will govern such opportunities? To keep pace, new local public policy must be developed. As with most public policy questions, elected officials struggle with the concept of “progress”: balancing environmental protection with economic prosperity. Aquaculture as a potentially new and/or expanding economic engine for many Chesapeake Bay coastal local governments begins to blur the line between the need for enhanced local environmental management and economic prosperity. If local government is to develop new public policy to support and sustain aquaculture-working waterfront infrastructure, tradeoffs will have to be made. Various approaches and new local public policy options are under consideration to strengthen aquaculture-working waterfront infrastructure to enhance sustainability.
Lewie Lawrence earned his master’s degree in city and regional planning from University of Memphis and bachelor’s in business administration, real estate from Christopher Newport College. His professional work focuses on coastal zone management; recent projects include the Mathews County Aquaculture and Working Waterfront Infrastructure Initiative, which focuses on the need for new local public policy to enhance and sustain the traditional coastal economy of this rural area. Lawrence is developing a Regional Waterfront Access Master Plan for six coastal Virginia localities, and he oversaw the York River Use Conflict Policy Recommendation Committee.
Small City Creates Big Marine Industry Expansion Plans
Jeremy Earle, Dania Beach Community Redevelopment Agency, and Michael Cannon, Integra Realty Resources
Abstract: In the State of Florida, the economic impact of marine industry is approximately $18.6 billion and employment approximately 220,000 people. In Broward County, the direct, indirect, and induced impacts of marine industry have accounted for an economic impact of more than $10.6 billion and created more than 134,000 jobs. Due to the diminishing number of waterfront parcels suitable for marine industry development, South Florida continues to lose boat manufacturers and related marine industry uses to other areas. The City of Dania Beach, which is located in Broward County, has created one of the most ambitious marine industry expansion plans in recent memory in order to stem the tide of the loss of valuable waterfront parcels. The city’s plan calls for the reconstruction of two major bridges that have been an impediment to marine industry expansion because their 12-foot heights restricted access for most boats over 26 feet. In conjunction with the realignment of certain roadways in order to place more land directly on the waterways and the reconstruction of two smaller bridges, this project is projected to create approximately $1.5 billion in yearly economic and wage impacts over the next 10-15 years and create 4,000-6,000 new high-paying jobs during that same time period.
Jeremy Earle is executive director of the Dania Beach Community Redevelopment Agency. He is an award-winning planner and is considered an expert in the field of redevelopment and revitalization. He serves on the boards of the Florida Redevelopment Association and the Smart Growth Partnership for South Florida.He has experience working in both the public and private sectors and has brought that experience to bear in conceiving of and overseeing a $160 million public-private redevelopment project in the heart of the City of Dania Beach, in addition to spearheading the region’s largest marine industry expansion initiative.
Recreational and Commercial Maritime Infrastructure: A Decision Support Tool for AssessingSignificance
Kevin Sharbaugh, University of Florida Levin College of Law and Thomas T. Ankersen, University of Florida Levin College of LawConservation Clinic
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Kevin Sharbaugh is a recentgraduate of the University of FloridaLevin College of Law, where he participated in the school’s Conservation Clinic.With support from the State of Florida Waterfronts Florida Partnership Program, the Clinic provides legal and policy planning assistance to working waterfronts throughout Florida. Sharbaughholds 100-ton captain’s license and 4,000 hp-designated duty engineer’s license. He spent six years in the Navy as a nuclear machinist mate on submarines. He also cruised the waters of the United States on the tall ship H.M.S. Bounty, and as a boat delivery specialist. He currently owns a 41-foot Formosa Ketch.
Thomas T. Ankersen is a legal skills professor at the University of Florida Levin College of Law where he directs the Conservation Clinic, housed in the Center for Governmental Responsibility.The Clinic represents clients in the governmental, non-governmental, and private sectors in environmental and land-use matters.Ankersen also serves as a statewide legal specialist for Florida Sea Grant, providing legal and policy support to the state’s marine extension network and its constituents.Current work has focused on issues concerning public water access and the preservation of working waterfronts. Ankersen holds a J.D. from the University of Florida where he was a member of the Law Review.
TRACK II ‐ Successful Local, Regional, State, and Federal Strategies Addressing Working Waterfront
Regulation Supporting Redevelopment, Revitalization, Retention of Working Waterfronts: NewEngland Examples
Jack Wiggin, Urban Harbors Institute, Moderator
The Role and Effectiveness of Regulations in preserving the working waterfront
Dan Hellin, Urban Harbors Institute, University of Massachusetts Boston
Abstract: In Massachusetts, the state government and many municipal governments regulate coastal waterfront property to preserve, protect, and encourage water-dependent commercial and industrial uses. Of course, many other factors, e.g., economic and industry trends, tax policy, investments in infrastructure, business decisions, and political priorities, also influence land use. With the goal of providing insight into and documentation of the role and effectiveness of regulations in maintaining working waterfronts, the Urban Harbors Institute conducted a historical study of waterfront land use and a comparative analysis of land-use changes on commercial and industrial properties both subject to and free of state and/or municipal regulations designed to protect and promote water-dependent uses. The study design includes interviews with business owners, industry analysts, and state and local officials responsible for waterfront regulatory programs. The findings and results can be used to evaluate and improve provisions of existing regulations and aid governments in determining the appropriate mechanisms for implementing policies for working waterfronts.
Dan Hellin is a senior research associate with the Urban Harbors Institute at the University of Massachusetts Boston specializing in coastal management and marine ecology. Since joining the institute in 2001, he has been involved in numerous projects focused on harbor and waterfront planning, coastal management, GIS, natural resource inventories, marine pollution reduction strategies, recreational boating studies and analyses, and marine industry master planning.He has worked on harbor management plans for Gloucester, New Bedford, Fairhaven, Nantucket, Falmouth, and Salisbury, Massachusetts, and Bridgeport, Connecticut. Hellin has participated in assessments of the marine and coastal economies in Massachusetts and marine workforce needs in both Massachusetts and Florida. He has a master's degree in coastal management from Newcastle University and B.S. in zoology from Oxford University.
Putting the Working Port Back to Work
Sarah Garcia, City of Gloucester, MA
Abstract: In 2008, Gloucester, Massachusetts was home to a fishing industry landing an annual catch of 120 million pounds worth $54 million, federal regulations preventing any expansion of catch, state regulations limiting diversification of waterfront uses, deteriorating docks, a beautiful and increasingly rare non-gentrified harbor, and polarized local interests that gridlocked a draft Municipal Harbor Plan four years in the making. The conversation was moved from competing interests into the broader community by means of listening posts, at which citizens defined the values that would drive solutions for the waterfront and the range of activities they wanted to see on the harbor. The mayor, believing that the harbor could accommodate the needs of all its citizens and industry, promoted the advancement of economic development on many fronts. The Municipal Harbor Plan and Designated Port Area Master Plan is complete and has been approved by the state,an Economic Development Plan is being created, targeted technical assistance is ongoing, and changes to the state Waterways, Harbor Planning, and Designated Port Area rules and regulations are expected in 2010.
Sarah Buck Garcia directs the Community Development Department for the City of Gloucester, where she oversees the planning, economic development and grants divisions.She is the city’s designated Port Professional to the Massachusetts Seaport Advisory Council and as such is responsible for the Harbor Plan and Designated Port Area management. Garcia holds a master’s in public policy from Tufts University and a B.A. in government from Harvard University.Garcia is a member of the American Planning Association and the American Institute of Certified Planners.
Portland, Maine: Lessons and Challenges of Planning for a Mixed Use Waterfront
Summary
Bill Needleman, City of Portland Department of Planning and Urban Development
Abstract: Following several condominium conversions of working waterfront piers, in 1987 the residents of Portland, Maine, voted to ban all non-marine development in the city’s harbor for five years. During the years that followed, the absolutes of moratorium gave way to compromise and recognition that the working waterfront is an evolving system of regional economics, fisheries regulation, real estate trends, and local politics. Portland’s policy and planning response to this complex system encompasses a wide range of measures including working waterfront preservation, mixed-use zoning, public infrastructure development, and recognizing the emerging role of marine passenger tourism. The presentation includes an overview of Portland’s waterfront policy development, and concludes with lessons learned from one of the East Coast’s most fascinating urban harbors.