The Tisbury select board heard objections last week to a split-rail fence recently built at the Tashmoo Spring building area, where the town administrator lives.
The Martha's Vineyard Commission last week discussed the potential parking and traffic impacts of 15 proposed apartments that would be built behind the Dairy Queen in Edgartown.
The controversial Green Villa condominium complex proposed for Oak Bluffs has been pitched as a way to provide homes to the "missing middle," though opponents say it is too big and will overwhelm an already congested area.
A housing project in West Tisbury that will add eight affordable units to the town’s rental housing stock broke ground earlier this winter and is expected to be completed by next year.
The prospect of three new two-story apartment buildings behind the Dairy Queen in Edgartown, with a total of 15 rental units, 18 bedrooms and 18 parking spaces, drew strong opposition from neighbors when the Martha’s Vineyard Commission opened a public hearing on the proposal March 5.
The Martha’s Vineyard Commission this week voted unanimously in favor of a redevelopment plan that would transform the former Phillips Hardware, on Circuit avenue in Oak Bluffs, into a mixed-use building with two floors of apartments above two street-level retail shops.
The Pacheco family is seeking to demolish the vacant, brick-fronted building and replace it with a modular structure holding two retail establishments at street level and 10 walk-up apartments, totaling 12 bedrooms, on two upper floors.
Aquinnah hired Rhode Island-based municipal consulting network Libra Planners in April to gather community responses and help envision the corridor, which is planned to center around the town hall and stretch along a portion of State Road.
