Land regulation at Fire Island National Seashore: A history and analysis, 1964-2004
Kaufman N and Starks C. 2008. Land regulation at Fire Island National Seashore: A history and analysis, 1964-2004. NPS Special History Study. National Park Service, Department of the Interior
This paper seeks to describe what the Cape Cod formula was intended to accomplish at Fire Island and how it has actually worked in practice. The goal is to provide a basis for assessing and fixing its shortcomings. Chapter One reviews the intent of Congress and DOI in establishing the Seashore and sets the design of its land use system within the historical context of aspirations and concerns expressed by legislators, agency officials, local elected officials, landowners, civic groups, and other members of the public at the time. Chapter Two traces the subsequent efforts to correct the system’s increasingly evident failures through 1991: the critiques, policy proposals, administrative rules, and legislative amendments. Chapter Three analyzes the system’s actual performance, focusing on the period since th implementation of the current federal zoning standards in 1991.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Kaufman, Ned; Starks, Charles
- Date of Issue
- 2008-09
- Publisher
- National Park Service, Department of the Interior
- Units
- FIIS , HIST
- Keywords
- Cape Cod, Conservation, Cultural Resources, ehistory, environmental management, Fire Island, History, Land Use, Recreation, Regulations, seashore, Wilderness