Goodale’s Pit, the longtime family-owned earth mining business in Oak Bluffs, does not need to be reviewed by the Martha’s Vineyard Commission as a development of regional impact, a key commission subcommittee decided Monday.

The MVC land use planning committee voted 10-1 to recommend no review by the full commission, sending the matter back to the town. Neighbors to the sand and gravel pit, which also hosts a small asphalt plant, complained to the Oak Bluffs selectmen early this month about tree clearing, an access road that had been rerouted and emissions from the asphalt plant owned by the Lawrence-Lynch Corp.

But the land use committee questioned whether the project was under their jurisdiction as there is no permit currently before any town board to review. Commission members also questioned whether there was in fact a change of intensity in use of the pit as tree clearing has always been a incidental component of the mining operation.

A complete story will appear in the Friday Gazette.