Meetings Ahead
Most meetings in Provincetown are held in-person, typically with an online-attendance option for both committee members and residents. 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 at Town Hall unless otherwise noted.
Thursday, March 9
- Public Pier Corp. Board, 5 p.m.
- Planning Board, 6 p.m.
Monday, March 13
- Select Board, 6 p.m.
Tuesday, March 14
- Visitor Services Board, 1 p.m.
- Licensing Board, 5:15 p.m.
Wednesday, March 15
- Historic District Commission, 3:30 p.m.
Thursday, March 16
- Board of Health, 4 p.m.
- Zoning Board of Appeals, 6 p.m.
Conversation Starter
The Warrant Is Closed
On Friday, March 3, the select board met briefly to formalize the warrant for the upcoming town meeting on April 3. There are 29 articles, not including the “consent agenda” — a package of eight more articles that are so uncontroversial they are usually passed by unanimous consent.
Article 8, the community preservation grants, are described in this week’s Independent. Article 9, the capital improvement plan, includes 30 different investments in town facilities and infrastructure, including new roofs at Harbor Hill and a study on creating a 40-foot opening with a bridge in the Long Point dike. The 30 items in Article 9 add up to $5.8 million in spending from various sources, although nearly a third of that total is for just one item: a water line replacement project on MacMillan Pier.
Article 14 would allocate $100,000 to a pilot project to provide early-morning and late-night bus or van transportation for people who work in Provincetown but live in other Outer Cape towns. Article 15 would ask the legislature to authorize a deed restriction program, modeled after one in Vail, Colo., that would limit properties to year-round occupancy rather than by income.
There are seven petitioned articles, including one on plastic waste, three on short-term rentals, two limiting fireworks displays, and one changing the boundaries of the town’s historic district. —Paul Benson
