It isn’t a choice of housing or the environment. Martha’s Vineyard deserves and can have both. You can support housing without sacrificing our ponds, watersheds, and eelgrass/shellfish habitat. Affordable housing is possible without sacrificing our most fragile ecosystems.

Details matter and are necessary to make informed choices that protect our ponds and provide attainable housing for our community. The proposed Katama Meadows development is high-density housing, much of it seasonal, in the most fragile part of the Edgartown Great Pond watershed.

Please join Samantha Look, Executive Director of Vineyard Conservation Society and Emily Reddington, Biologist and Executive Director of Great Pond Foundation for a presentation covering nitrogen, watersheds, wastewater, pond health, land, and development. Community discussion to follow.