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Our little village on Nantucket Sound comes alive in the summer.

Sunny days and warm nights, ice cream, eateries and miles of sandy beaches coax visitors and residents alike to Dennis Port.

In fact, there’s a new Town Library in the village center, a great year-round theatre just over the border in West Harwich, a park with a playground and stores and service businesses that dot the downtown and environs. Dennis Port has active civic groups and no shortage of traffic. But in truth, Dennis Port doesn’t turn heads except, perhaps, sympathetic ones. The tendency is to drive through it and get to the other side without really noticing what is good and vibrant and worth visiting.

A shadow of what it once was, Dennis Port continues to evolve but lacks a comprehensive plan. The outcome is predictably chaotic and the populace watches, waiting and wondering what will become of this village center.
 
Hope lingers behind every derelict building and within every empty lot. Committed to making sweeping and lasting improvements, the current Dennis Port Revitalization Committee (DRC) has embraced a relatively new community planning tool. This tool, used successfully around the world, is called a Design Charrette.
 

Report from the Revitalization Charrette
We Want Your Input!

The Dennis Port Revitalization Plan is ready for your input. To access the report, click on the links below. We look forward to your specific comments that provide clear direction on how the Report can be improved. Comments can be sent to the Committee by or by leaving a message at (508) 394-8300. Comments can also be dropped off at the front desk at Town Hall or in the DennisPort Revitalization Comment Box at the Dennis Public Library.

This Plan will be formally presented by B. Dennis Town Design and the DennisPort Revitalization Committee at a joint meeting of the Board of Selectmen and Planning Board on Wednesday, February 24 at 6pm at the Dennis Senior Center. The meeting will be televised on Channel 18.

This comment and input period will end one week after the presentation.

Clicking on these links will begin a download of a PDF document. Some of these files are large, and may take several minutes to download. You will also need Adobe Reader to open the files. If you do not have Adobe Reader, click here for a free download.

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