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EEPING THE VINEYARD UNIQUE In 1974, Dukes County voters and the Massachusetts General Court made the bold decision to create the Martha’s Vineyard Commission and give it special powers to manage Island development. According to the Act of the Legislature that created the MVC (Chapter 831), “Martha’s Vineyard possesses unique natural, historical, ecological, scientific, cultural and other values . . . These values are being threat-ened and may be irreversibly damaged by uncoordinated or inappropriate uses of the land.”