The Martha’s Vineyard Commission will install a barrier along the shore of the Lagoon Pond.

After four exhaustive hearings and a mountain of correspondence, the Martha’s Vineyard Commission closed a public hearing last Thursday on one of the largest proposed subdivisions in decades.

A long-running land-use review of a controversial subdivision planned for off Meetinghouse Way in Edgartown continues.

Four redesigns later, the slightly-altered 54-acre Meeting House Place subdivision plan is set go before the Martha’s Vineyard Commission.

Stop & Shop wants to move it. The Tisbury Historic District wants to save it. The Martha’s Vineyard Commission doesn’t fully know what it wants to do with it.

Martha’s Vineyard’s 13 coastal ponds are unique, globally rare estuarine ecosystems that dot the edges of Island.

The MVC last week grappled with a proposal to demolish the historic building that houses the Red Cat Kitchen restaurant.

The Barn Bowl and Bistro’s new takeout window will be about 15 square feet in area. But the small window had outsized implications for the commission.

With the threat of climate change pressing on one side and an increase in residential development squeezing on the other, the MVC is proposing changes to its DRI checklist.

Encumbered by hefty legal fees, the regional planning commission approved a $1.7 million budget for the 2021 fiscal year at its meeting last week.