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Next came private initiative, with the Nantucket Conservation Foundation established in 1965. Using private money, the foundation has amassed fee interest holdings across the island that now total 6,000 acres. “That was put together by the summer people,” Mr. Klein pointed out.
But still, development threatened. “The community came to understand that it could no longer rely on the traditional tools of regulatory police power.” Large lot zoning had been tried; “large lot suburban sprawl” was the result with “houses on every knoll, going for the views,” he said. “It became dramatically clear what would happen — all this land would be eaten up in yard space.”
Alarmed citizens determined that it would be a $100 million task to buy the fragile heath lands between the villages, Mr. Klein continued. And the money had to be raised by local government; there was no help from the state. “It was time for the public sector to face up to its responsibilities . . . but how were the people to be motivated?”
The start came with a conference, “Nantucket in the Year 2002.” Off-island experts were ferried and airlifted over for 15 hours of advice on protecting aquifers, providing affordable housing, planning for trans
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