<div dir="ltr"><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-173c9506-7fff-4aa2-eb02-c519f40890a6"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Hi planners, </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Town of North Andover has a number of open space protection goals outlined in multiple planning documents that we have been looking into organizing into a cohesive land acquisition/protection strategy. We’re faced with the challenge of determining how best to prioritize land for protection and how the process for doing so should work. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">I would be interested to know how your municipality/jurisdiction has approached open space protection, especially working with various stakeholders, coordinating goals from multiple plans, and prioritizing land for protection. Your responses to this short multiple choice survey would be helpful: <a href="https://forms.gle/KTrsWtK9bMCmub9v6">https://forms.gle/KTrsWtK9bMCmub9v6</a></span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">There’s an optional open response section, if anyone would rather comment more generally on the topic. If I get more than a couple survey responses, I’ll compile the anonymous data and share with folks.</span></p><br>Thank you!<br><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Sincerely, </span></p></span><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><font face="georgia, serif">Dan Beckley<br><br>Staff Planner</font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="georgia, serif">Town of North Andover<br>120 Main Street<br>North Andover, MA 01845<br><a href="mailto:dbeckley@northandoverma.gov">dbeckley@northandoverma.gov</a><br>Phone: (978) 688-9535 <br></font></div></div></div></div>

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