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- - <br /> SELECTMEN APR I 22007 <br /> COPIED _ .. <br /> 2010 Filbert Street <br /> San Francisco, CA 94123 <br /> April S, 2007 <br /> Mashpee Board of Selectmen <br /> Mashpee Town Hall <br /> 16 Great Neck Rd. <br /> Mashpee, MA 02649 <br /> To the Mashpee Board of Selectmen: <br /> As the owner and part-time resident of the property at 19 Seaside Village Road in South <br /> Yarmouth, I am completely against the Cape Wind proposal, and believe it would be <br /> devastating for Cape Cod over the long run. <br /> The location for the proposed Cape Wind Project was developer-driven. Who else would <br /> be foolish enough to take a wildlife sanctuary and a beloved tourist destination and create <br /> afield of oversize turbines? What on God's earth is.everyone thinking by allowing a <br /> businessman to dictate the direction of an entire region? Of all the coastal places to <br /> choose, why pick one that would adversely affect a designated ocean sanctuary, a <br /> designated essential fish habitat and the economics of an entire region? <br /> From an economic and sociological standpoint, the development of the turbine field <br /> offshore—a view that is no more lovely than the sight of oil rigs--will shift the current <br /> highly-desirable vacationers demographics of Nantucket Sound to one that is far less so. <br /> When you create an oil rig vista, you create a poor vacation environment. This will ruin <br /> countless small businesses, restaurants and motels which depend on the tourist trade for <br /> their very survival. The resultant vacancy rate and plummeting prices will allow in a less <br /> desirable element, which invariably means drugs and increased crime. <br /> I have nothing against the idea of wind power and a field of one hundred and thirty giant <br /> three-story wind turbines but they do not belong in the center of a designated ocean <br /> sanctuary nor in the vista of one of the country's prime vacation spots. <br /> At the very least, an economist or consultant should be hired to assess.the economic <br /> ramifications of the turbine field—which is anything but a tourist draw—on the future <br /> economics of the surrounding Cape towns. <br /> Please fight this disastrous proposal! Someone needs to ask, Why here?Is this location <br /> best for the people, or the developers? <br /> Sincerely, <br /> Lisa M. Ali <br />