MOVING FAIRHAVEN FORWARD
Our Vision
Fairhaven enjoys a natural setting and an architectural style that produce a two-fold sense of place. The shoreline offers an experience of openness, invigoration and challenge and the Village Green elicits a feeling of security, comfort and familiarity. The bluff that separates these two venues is a powerful means of reinforcing their respective impacts. By a process of community-wide stewardship, these causal elements can be preserved and enhanced to make Fairhaven an even more desirable area in which to live and work and an even more inviting destination for visitors whether they come by land or by water. We seek to develop a value-oriented compact to guide an ongoing planning effort, which should include leaders from the four neighborhoods that border Fairhaven as well as the City and the Port of Bellingham, since the Fairhaven waterfront is entirely publicly owned. BY ALL MEANS, NO FURTHER DEVELOPMENT SHOULD BE PERMITTED IN FAIRHAVEN UNTIL THIS PLANNING EFFORT IS UNDERWAY.
