An Edgartown subdivision plan that aims to tackle the Island’s middle-income housing shortage is headed for deliberations by the Martha’s Vineyard Commission following the conclusion of a public hearing Thursday.
For countless Island businesses, providing employee housing has become a cost of doing business.
The planning board met Tuesday for a public hearing on the bylaw, which bans fractional ownership in certain parts of town.
There will be an information meeting on March 30 at 11 a.m. about the new affordable housing apartments created in Aquinnah by Island Housing Trust.
Xerxes Agassi returned to the Martha’s Vineyard Commission with a new mixed-use development proposal for the former Educomp building at 4 State Road in Vineyard Haven.
Edgartown residents debated 10 possible new zoning bylaws in a public hearing Tuesday, all intended to preserve the town’s year-round housing stock, encourage higher-density building and protect the Island’s fragile natural resources.