Goal PA-1. Increase and enhance public access to publicly owned shoreline areas consistent with private rights, public safety and the natural shoreline character.

Maintain and improve our existing public access facilities, seek more facilities and devices to increase opportunities for public access to our region’s waters. Further, public access should be as safe as feasible, cause no ill effect on other shorelines uses or features, or ill effect on the waters themselves or infringement upon private property rights. Yet fragile areas should not be destroyed through overuse, rather that the volume of access be only that which the waters and shorelines can withstand.