On Fri, 20 Jul 2007 08:53:03 -0700, Chuck Gould
wrote:

Port Commissions are under a lot of pressure to produce the highest
possible economic return to their communities. In doing so, some of
them lose sight of thier basic mission- to operate a maritime port.

If the only consideration in every community is "what is the highest
and best use of every single square inch of property and how do we
move from here to there?" any industry that requires any amount of
space to operate or must by nature compete with intensive condo
development for "desirable" locations (i.e waterfront) is in the
crosshairs.

I was just pointing out that one poster's assumption in incorrect.
Notice that poster hasn't rebutted that comment, thus it's a dead end
on this thread.

All city governments are pushing for more revenue and they will get it
anyway they can.

The question is how can they take maximum benefit from their
situation. I'm pretty sure that high dollar boats mean high dollar
repairs and it would seem that they are positioned to take advantage
of that.

For example, the largest small boat repair center in CT that is an all
around repair shop is located smack in the middle of CT as far from
any water as you can possibly get.

Just a thought.