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The Meredith Islands Association has been advocating for Island property owners and improvements planned for the 4 Meredith owned waterfront sites. Mockups on the town website were a starting proposal for each site. Ironically the engineer heading up this study is not a boater. We had about 35 members at each of the 3 meetings which was pretty good considering they were on a Monday night at 430PM and the island population wildly fluctuates week to week. There was much public input such as redesigning the ADA ramp at Cattle, dropping the fingers that would be a boating nightmare unless you were in the boat insurance business, and extending all docks as far out as the state will allow. When it comes to tourism throw out the rules to some extent, the state will allow expansion. We also recommended increasing the spacing at Brown's and dropping the nice landscaping that would consume existing parking. Additionally remote parking at Browns must be investigated and may become part of a redevelopment planned by the owners of Shep Brown's. Details of a permit parking sticker system are being discussed limiting parking at Cattle landing to Meredith property owners and their guests. If that system works and is fully refined and implemented next year, then it may be extended to Shep Browns. If you are a Gilford island property owner using either Cattle Landing or Shep Browns you may want to start to make alternate plans for next summer. If anyone is interested the selectmen will begin discussing what is proposed and public input from the 3 hearings and online survey at their next workshop on 9-16 at 420PM at the community center.