Growth Management
The high quality of life we enjoy on Cape Cod depends on a healthy environment, with safe drinking water, clean ponds and bays, unspoiled open areas and vibrant mixed use village centers. How successful we are in protecting the qualities that make the Cape so special is directly related to the choices we make in utilizing our limited land area and our natural resources.
Existing patterns of growth, perpetuated by ineffective local zoning bylaws and state land use laws, have caused us to sprawl across the landscape. The resulting development has needlessly consumed thousands of acres of land, fragmented critical habitats, compromised the quality of our coastal waters, ponds and groundwater, and altered the open vistas that are such a part of Cape Cod’s identity.
Through our programs, APCC is helping to effect changes on the local, regional and state level to reduce growth’s impacts and to increase protections for our land and water resources. The following program areas outline some of APCC’s work.
