Meetings Ahead
Most meetings in Provincetown are held in person, typically with an online-attendance option. Click on the meeting you want to attend on the calendar at provincetown-ma.gov for a link to an agenda and details. All meetings are at Town Hall unless otherwise noted.
Thursday, May 1
- Council on Aging Board, 10 a.m., Veterans Memorial Community Center
- Coastal Resilience community engagement event, 3 to 6 p.m.
- Zoning Board of Appeals, 6 p.m.
Tuesday, May 6
- Conservation Commission, 6 p.m.
Wednesday, May 7
- Bicycle Committee, 1 p.m., Veterans Memorial Community Center
- Historic District Commission, 3:30 p.m.
Thursday, May 8
- Scholarship and Trust Admin. Committee, 3 p.m.
- Planning Board, 6 p.m.
Conversation Starters
Early voting
There are eight days of early voting in the town clerk’s office in advance of the town election on Tuesday, May 13. Early voting begins on Wednesday, April 30 and continues every weekday until Friday, May 9.
There are relatively few choices on the ballot, however. There are no contested races for select board, school board, board of library trustees, or charter compliance commission. The two ballot questions include a $1.4-million operating override to fund new positions in the fire and EMS dept. and more overtime in the police dept. and an advisory vote asking the state to pressure Holtec, the company that is decommissioning the Pilgrim nuclear power plant, to stop the “gaseous discharge” of radioactive wastewater into the atmosphere.
Housing Pipeline
The last tenant who is still living at 288A Bradford St., a residential property near the Provincetown Tennis Club that the town purchased for $1,475,000 in 2022, will be moving this week to an ADA-accessible unit owned by the Provincetown Housing Authority, Town Manager Alex Morse told the select board on April 28.
The historic district commission has approved the demolition of the property, Morse said, and the town will soon seek a consultant to begin a “community visioning” process to decide what kind of housing should be built there and at 22-24 Nelson Ave., which the town purchased for $2 million in 2023.
Because of the size and configuration of the lots, one possibility is that 288A Bradford could support about 15 affordable-ownership units, while the 0.9-acre parcel on Nelson Avenue could support two to three times that many affordable rental units once the town’s sewer system reaches that neighborhood.
Those are preliminary estimates by town staff, however, and the community visioning process will help determine what will actually be built on the two parcels. —Paul Benson
