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adopting — and using — innovative land use management tools? How did they get a 2 percent tax on land transfers that now raises $80,000 a week to purchase the heaths, moors, shoreline and ponds which their community has commited itself to protecting?
First came the threat.
Nantucket is an island of incredible beauty and charm, according to Mr. Klein. Its closely knit, dense village centers look much the same as they did in the 1800s, surrounded by the open land of heath, moor and ponds. “It’s a community mothballed by the death of the whaling industry” that remained undiscovered until the 1960s.
Then came, an onslaught of second homes: $200 million worth of real estate sold and 300 homes built a year. “It was a community not just on fire but at the point of meltdown,” Mr. Klein said.
Then “Yankee common sense” went to work. The island was declared an historic district, only the second of its kind in the nation, with a review board exercising “complete architectural control over the entire 50 miles, even such minute detail as painting the front door a different color,” the planning commissioner noted.
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