The Martha’s Vineyard Commission voted 10-6 to approve the regional high school athletic field project at a dramatic meeting Thursday night, capping a long-running and often acrimonious debate over synthetic turf fields.
As a dispute over the athletic fields overhaul at the regional high school heads to court, the Oak Bluffs board of health appears posied to adopt a two-year ban on artificial turf in town.
A sharply divided Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School district committee voted 5-4 Monday night to appeal the Oak Bluffs planning board’s denial of an athletic fields overhaul at the school that includes artifical turf.
With a $7 million overhaul of the high school athletic fields now stalled, the high school committee meets Monday to decide the next steps.
The bitterly debated multi-million-dollar project to overhaul the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School athletics fields was thrown into limbo Wednesday night.
The Oak Bluffs planning board took final comments Thursday night on the proposed turf field project and will deliberate and potentially vote at a meeting next Wednesday.
Passionate opponents of the plan to use artificial turf as the centerpiece of an athletics field overhaul at the regional high school had their turn before the Oak Bluffs planning board Thursday.
