[HISTORY: Adopted by the Annual Town Meeting of the Town of Nantucket 5-7-2024 by Art. 69, approved 9-27-2024. Amendments noted where applicable.]
The Coastal Resilience Districts are defined by geographical boundaries to describe the areas in Nantucket which will benefit from coastal resilience projects undertaken for the mitigation of the risk areas within the Coastal Resilience Districts. The land constituting the Islands Coastal Resilience District (the “ICRD”) is the entirety of the Island of Nantucket and Tuckernuck and Muskeget as shown on a map on file in the office of the Town Clerk. The Coastal Resilience Sub-Districts (the “Sub-Districts”) will be defined by geographical boundaries of a specific area of Nantucket to be determined by the Select Board as described in § 66A-3 below. The ICRD and the Sub-Districts are collectively referred to in this chapter as the “Coastal Resilience Districts.”
The purpose of the establishment of Coastal Resilience Districts is to provide for shared funding among the property owners in the respective Coastal Resilience Districts who benefit from the coastal resilience projects and improvements. This funding will provide a key contribution to the funding sources for the planning, construction, monitoring and maintenance of coastal resilience projects in the respective Coastal Resilience Districts. The establishment of the ICRD and the Sub-Districts will enable the Town to undertake coastal resilience projects to mitigate against the effects of coastal erosion and shoreline change to the Town’s coastline, sea level rise, flooding or other coastal hazards with resilience-related infrastructure to reduce the threats to life, personal injury and property damage, utilities and infrastructure which service the various Coastal Resilience Districts, prevent the occurrence of public emergencies, avoid the loss of roadways and utility services, reduce damage to public and private property, and provide for the planning and preparation of coastal resiliency measures to protect and preserve the Sub-Districts as well as the entire IRCD if the benefits are island-wide.
The Select Board shall have the authority by a majority vote to designate Coastal Resilience Sub-Districts which are defined by clear geographical boundaries, which they deem to be in the best interests of the Town as conditions and circumstances warrant in order to further protect and preserve public and private property, roadways, utilities and infrastructure from the effects of coastal erosion and shoreline change to the Town’s coastline, sea level rise, flooding or other coastal hazards, and to undertake applicable coastal resilience projects.
A. 
It is in the public interest to delineate the boundaries of the Coastal Resilience Districts in order to enable the Town to address the purposes of this chapter. The creation of the Coastal Resilience Districts will provide the Town the ability to mitigate the effects of coastal erosion and shoreline change to the Town’s coastline, sea level rise, flooding or other coastal hazards which occur in specific sub-districts, with the development of specific planning and prevention contingencies, including but not limited to the relocation of roadways, utilities and infrastructure, as well as the construction of structural improvements or coastal resilience-related improvements for particular sub-districts, and those plans to address island-wide effects.
B. 
The Coastal Resilience Districts will enable the Town to prepare for public and private funding of coastal resilience projects to address the effects of coastal erosion and shoreline change to the Town’s coastline, sea level rise, flooding or other coastal hazards by identifying the properties within the Coastal Resilience Districts which will benefit from the planning and development of these projects.