PROVINCETOWN — Spending bills being finalized in Boston this week will allocate $2.4 billion in federal relief money from the American Rescue Plan Act, which Congress passed in March, and […]
Housing
95 LAWRENCE ROAD
Task Force Backs POAH-CDP Affordable Housing Bid
Eastham-based Community Development Partnership is national nonprofit’s local partner
WELLFLEET — The task force charged with recommending the best developer to build and manage 46 units of affordable rental housing on Lawrence Road has selected a national nonprofit organization […]
COURT REPORT
Judge Is Asked to Require $50K Bond in Barracks Suit
Plaintiffs argue that dorm-style housing doesn’t count as ‘affordable’
PROVINCETOWN — Lawyers for the developer of a proposed workforce housing project — known as the Barracks — and the town’s planning board, which approved the development, have asked a […]
ECONOMY
As Guest Houses Sell, Many Become Private Homes
But innkeeping retains its appeal for some new owners
PROVINCETOWN — For 10 years, Provincetown’s hotel and guest house industry has been characterized by two trends. The total number of hotel rooms has been gradually decreasing, as many properties, […]
PRESERVATION
One of Two Historic Houses Will Be Demolished
The other, in Wellfleet, has been purchased by Mac Hay
EASTHAM — Threatened with demolition, two historic houses, one in Eastham and one in Wellfleet, were temporarily protected by local bylaws that delayed the destruction while alternatives could be explored. […]
HOUSING
Select Board Picks TCB for VFW Project
Vote on allocating rooms tax revenue is put off
PROVINCETOWN — The Community Builders, the Boston firm that built 50 apartments at Province Landing on Shank Painter Road 10 years ago, has won the bidding to construct affordable housing […]
COURT REPORT
6 Plaintiffs Are Dropping Out of Cloverleaf Suit
Ten others will move forward with the case
TRURO — Six residents who were suing the town and the developer in an attempt to halt the proposed Cloverleaf affordable housing project on Highland Road have decided to withdraw […]
COURT REPORT
Cloverleaf Plaintiffs May Have to Post $50,000 Bond
Town and developer invoke a new law meant to discourage frivolous suits
TRURO — A group of residents who have filed suit to block the Cloverleaf affordable housing development at 22 Highland Road in North Truro may be required to post a […]
THE RENTAL TAX
Wellfleet Select Board: 80% of Revenue Should Go to Trust Fund
Short-term rentals created housing shortage, says Terkanian
WELLFLEET — The select board has endorsed the idea of earmarking 80 percent of the revenue from the short-term rental tax to the town’s new affordable housing trust fund. “A […]
HOW TO SPEND IT
Morse Suggests Putting 26% of Rooms Taxes Into Housing Efforts
Three boards try to move the needle on town’s housing crisis
PROVINCETOWN — How much of the money collected from the new short-term rental tax should go to community housing efforts? That was the big question on the table at a […]
PAINE HOLLOW
Progress on 8 Affordable Units First Proposed in 2006
ZBA says changes agreed to by developer and abutters don’t require new hearing
WELLFLEET — Developer Ted Malone will be able to meet the Oct. 30 pre-application deadline to seek funding in 2022 for his plan to build eight units of affordable housing […]
HOUSING CRISIS
Wellfleet Casts Net for More Land to Buy
Affordable Housing Trust will issue an RFP seeking property in town
WELLFLEET — With the town having built far fewer affordable housing units than it promised the state it would create by 2022, the Affordable Housing Trust now plans to issue […]
HOUSING COMPROMISE
Long-Delayed Affordable Development Takes a Step Forward
Zoning board set to consider amended Paine Hollow plan
WELLFLEET — A longer driveway with a gentler slope, some beefed-up buffers, and a promise to sink new wells should there be water contamination issues are among the concessions that […]
95 LAWRENCE ROAD
Final Choice of Developer May Be Delayed Until November
The POAH-CDP partnership wins an early vote of support
WELLFLEET — The committee charged with rating the would-be developers of 46 affordable apartments at 95 Lawrence Road hopes to clarify a few details with the three groups that submitted proposals […]
HOUSING CRISIS
Provincetown ‘Pulls Out the Map’ to Look at Sites
An inventory of town-owned land shows long-term prospects
PROVINCETOWN — There are many ingredients in the town’s housing crisis, but one of the simplest and most stubborn is geography. Commercial Street and Route 6 are only about a […]
