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DANIEL S. NATCHEZ and ASSOCIATES, Inc. An International


Environmental Waterfront Design and Consulting Company


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Sounds like a win-win thought. Other measures might include


greater and more effective involvement in shaping the overall regulatory environment, support in dealing with the regulations and working with local government to help ensure that local zoning and development regulations are supportive of recreational boating, including full service facilities. There is room for a variety of


facilities with different approaches and it’s not always an all or nothing proposition. Here in my homeport, for example, we have quite a mix of facilities from no service to full, from yacht clubs to a shipyard and just about everything in between, including one specialty service only. Each facility has its role and in many ways it all pretty much works although if the local zoning wasn’t changed back in the 1980s, I suspect we would mostly have wall-to-wall condominiums. That prospect drives home the point – recreational


boating is doing pretty well here in my homeport, but the service facilities that allow that to be the case may well have disappeared without the community coming together some 40 years ago to create an environment that would allow them to carry on. So, make no mistake, service is and needs to continue to be a major part of the future of the industry and we who love it all need to find ways to support it – and focus on the yang!


*Dan Natchez is President of Daniel S. Natchez and Associates Inc, a leading international environmental waterfront design consulting company specialising in the design of marinas and marina resorts throughout the world. Your comments and enquiries are invited on Tel: +1 914 698 5678, by Fax: +1 914 698 7321, by E-mail: dan.n@ dsnainc.com or on his Website: www.dsnainc.com


DANIEL S. NATCHEZ and ASSOCIATES, Inc.


916 East Boston Post Road Mamaroneck, NY 10543 (tel) 1.914.698.5678


(email) dan.n@dsnainc.com www.dsnainc.com


MARINA INDUSTRY • APRIL 2020


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