KINGSTON — After years of floating ideas about what makes a perfect Port of Kingston, the board of commissioners is finally ready to launch its 10-year master plan.

The trio brought the plan before the public Wednesday night, approving the course of action that will help reshape the Apple Tree Cove Marina.

Having presented the plan to other civic groups — including the Kingston Citizens Advisory Committee — and with few negative opinions being voiced at the meeting, the commissioners expect to adopt the plan during their September meeting.

“It was really one of our shorter meetings,” said Port Commissioner Pete DeBoer. “It went very well. The commissioners were there as well as the committee that helped put the plan together.”

Port commissioners are hoping the plan will help Kingston become a walkable community, and increase the number of people who visit the marina. The 10-year plan includes building a dock for kayaks and small boat storage, improving parking, moving underground fuel tanks and an outdoor performing arts gazebo.

The short-term focus, DeBoer said, is parking — something that the port wants to solve within the next five years. The most popular idea currently on the organization’s table is relocating the parking lot underneath Mike Wallace Memorial Park.

“It’s a really neat, community developed plan,” DeBoer said. “It’s based on things we got from the community.”

“I think this is a very impressive plan,” said Kingston resident Chuck Atcheson. “It will be excellent for Kingston when it happens.”

The project has been a long time coming, said Port Commissioner Tom Coultas, noting that the members of the community and the port are excited and ready see it put into action.

“We had very few people from the public in attendance,” he said of Wednesday’s meeting. “But I think the plan has been pretty well received.”

Though turnout was low for the session, community members still have 30 days in which to comment on the plan the port has put together. DeBoer and Coultas are encouraging residents to voice their opinions on the project, as the final product will represent not only the port but Kingston as well.

“A good cross section of the public was on the committee who created this plan,” Coultas said. “We’re trying to keep the goals realistic, and I think we’ve done that.”

The port will fund the entire plan, and each month the commissioners put $40,000 into an account to help fund its future goals.

The short-term plans should hopefully be completed in the next five years, DeBoer said. The long-term goals, which include an extended marina facility, should be completed in 20 years if all goes according to plan.

“The more attractive the area is, the more people come to visit,” Atcheson said. “Anything that helps is more than welcomed for this community.”