North Shore Task Force (NSTF)

The North Shore Task Force (NSTF) is a group of 16 communities north of Boston working collaboratively on regional issues. The goal of NSTF is to cooperate with, and to assist, each member municipality in coordinating its planning and economic development so as to obtain maximum benefits for the North Shore district.

NSTf communities include:

• Beverly
• Danvers
• Essex
• Gloucester
• Hamilton
• Ipswich
• Manchester-by-the-Sea
• Marblehead
• Middleton
• Nahant
• Peabody
• Rockport
• Salem
• Swampscott
• Topsfield
• Wenham

Member communities focus on a broad range of issues that affect the North Shore, including sustainable development, equitable housing, transportation, clean energy, climate change and transportation. NSTF is guided by the principles found in the MetroFuture Plan, MAPC's regional development blueprint for the Boston Metropolitan area.

To learn more about the communities in the region, view a mapof the MAPC region and its subregions. Find more information about each community on the MetroBoston DataCommon Community Snapshots page.

Meetings

The Task Force met on July 8 in Danvers.

The NSTF does not meet in August.  The next meeting following July will be September 16, 8:30 am at the Peabdody Institute Library, 15 Sylvan Street in Danvers.

NSTF meets on the second Thursday of each month, 8:30 am, at the Peabody Essex Institute Library, 15 Sylvan Street, Danvers, MA. Meeting dates are subject to change; please contact Subregional Coordinator Sam Cleaves at scleaves@mapc.org for more information.

Leadership

Each community has two representatives to NSTF, appointed by either its Mayor or Board of Selectmen. The committee Chairman is elected by the membership annually. An MAPC staff person also provides support to NSTF in the role of Subregional Coordinator.

The Task Force is co-chaired by Blair Haney (Peabody) and Peter Phippen (Essex).

Whats New

NSTF is working with the cities of Salem and Peabody on a corridor project linking both cities' main streets: Boston Street in Salem and Main Street in Peabody.

Learn more by visiting the project page: http://www.mapc.org/subregions/nstf/salem-peabody-corridor

Read project updates on the Peabody Salem Corridor Project blog: http://www.mapc.org/blog/salem-peabody

Recent Projects and Presentations

 June, 2010 CLURPA draft legislation and summary

May, 2010 Review of EPA draft MS4 stormwater requirements

Questions?

For additional information, please contact the NSTF Subregional Coordinator Sam Cleaves, AICP, Senior Regional Planner, at (617) 451-2770 ext. 2013 or scleaves@mapc.org.