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CAPE COD PLANNING & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION IN 1975 Please find the annual report of the Cape Cod Planning and Eco- nomic Development Commission. On behalf of myself and alternate Mr. Peter Sloane, we wish to express our appreciation for the support you have given to the Commision and it's ( programs during the past Year. Your continuing support of the Commission will, we feel, permit ever ission's staff and membership to the Town increasing services by the Comm of Mashpee. Sincerely yours, i J. Norman Fitzgerald 4 Mashpee Member of CCPEDC 1, a ' HJ ' OMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION IN 1975 CAPE COD PLANNING & ECON o, Cape Codders were trying to decide whether they { Two hundred years ag P gain freedom Manywere reluctant should continue their loyalty to the King or join in a rebellion o iffor the Colonies. While revolutionary fervor ran high, ' to turn their backs to the mother country, remaining staunch loyalists. Cafe i In 1v Cod towns continue to reserve the right to che conceptoduality fhome rule maintis xpandinging the po- ' 1 i�v as a stronghold of home rule. Yet, the to growing pressures of Federal and ` }, ��;I wards a regional meaning in resp State authority as well as increasing demands on limited Local services. 1 i A Quiet Revolution past year, the Cape Cod Planning and Economic Development Commi- t {r€ This p Y programs of considerable ss has received funds for two federally fun Wastewater Management 9 { Comm'- potential impact on the Cape as a region -- 9 �+ Planning Program se two Pro- and the Coastal Zone Management Program. The ssion has stressed the import�noc�mslare noWaunderation in the consideration by he grams. Other far-reaching p g growth policies and land ? State and Federal government geared to establishing g ro rams are ,�i� s;� gr and development use planning on the regional and local level. All of these p seeking a local consensus that will determine the future g i rf of Cape Cod. I importance of Cape residents and public officials have begunowmnnumber of citizens these programs and their cumulative effects. A growing responded i are attending public meetings on regional issues and officials have resp c promptly to requests for appointments to citizen advisory committees The year uirements of these programs and, more - I Commission has established a series of citizen committees during the p which are dealing effectively with the req public consensus on fi importantly, are beginning to approach the development of a p n basic regional priorities. I ' 118