b'C H A P T E R S E V E NMrs. Stone may have been the first on hand worried about Chathams tenuous water supply, but by no means was she the only one.FCW board member George Olmsted pinpointed words from Storm Warnings that, to him, epitomized the challenges facing Chatham:congestion .too many people .too many cars .too many houses .overdevelopment.Planning Board Vice-Chairman Dave Donnan relayed his absent daughters concern that we really need to concentrate on the preservation of our shoreline and all the marshes around town.Preservation was also expounded by store-owner Jon Vaughn. We need to be better stewards of the land, he said. Every time we construct a new home or a new store, we take more water out of the ground and we put more sewage into it. We are fouling our own nest. Maybe it was time, he ventured, to think about a moratorium on local building. Later, a member of the Non-Voting Taxpayers Advisory Committee echoed that sober view: stopping issuance of building permits might give the town a better chance to finish writing various crucial management plans.And so the presentations went until 10:15, when a break was called; the rest of the morning would deal with solutions. Early in the second half, Town Planner Margaret Swanson told of progress being made on formal responses to some of the problems: drafting a long range plan, implementing the Stage Harbor Management Plan, and the ongoing study of waste water management.One essential in pursuing solutions, remarked Patricia Siewert, a member of FCWsr{board, should be building a legal defense fund.That would enable Chatham to fight againstThe complex subject of zoning those people who want to do something thatswas brought up at the meeting not right .as far as buildings go, hire lawyers, by long-time Planning Board (who) dominate the scene, and the plans aremember Dave Donnan.His concern:people were building accepted. on marginal lots.Maybe they Could a change in the Zoning Bylawcan support a septic system, he help the town? This question, addressed bysaid, but can they support a Dave Donnan of the Planning Board, was thewell?The Donnan Family Archivefirst time that morning that zoning was giventhe spotlight. Of great concern to him, people seemed to be building on marginal lots, ones that may be able to support a septic system, but can they123'