Dana Beach, director of the Coastal Conservation League, noted that the cruise ships’ negative effects could extend well beyond traffic and include air and water pollution, visual blight and harm to marine life, including endangered whales.

Beach said the city not only should limit cruise ships to one arrival at a time, but also should include caps on the number of passengers and the height of the vessels.

He said the city must act because federal regulations on cruise ships are three decades old and inadequate. “No one should be lulled into thinking these changes will be easy,” he said.

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