Meetings Ahead
Most meetings in Provincetown are 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 take place at Town Hall unless otherwise noted.
Thursday, June 22
- Animal Welfare Committee, 10 a.m.
- Public Pier Corp. Board, 5 p.m.
- Planning Board, 6 p.m.
Monday, June 26
- Bicycle Committee, noon
- Public Pier Corp. stakeholders, 2 p.m.
- Select Board, 6 p.m.
Tuesday, June 27
- Public Pier Corp. stakeholders, 2 p.m.
- Licensing Board, 5:15 p.m.
Wednesday, June 28
- Coastal Resiliency Advisory Committee, noon
- Harbor Committee, 2 p.m.
- Recreation Committee, 5:30 p.m.
Conversation Starters
Regulating Scooters
At the select board meeting on June 12, nearly the entire board expressed a desire to further regulate electric scooters, particularly on Commercial Street.
“We really have to start addressing opposite-direction traffic on Commercial Street,” said board member John Golden. “We’ve been letting them run amok for the last few years, and it’s getting dangerous.”
“I saw a lot of kids without helmets, and people who are treating Commercial Street like a ski slope, just racing downhill,” said member Leslie Sandberg.
“I wonder if we should start drafting up some articles for fall town meeting now,” said member Austin Miller.
“We already asked one of the two companies to geofence a town parking lot, because too many scooters were being left there,” said Assistant Town Manager Dan Riviello. Geofencing is a technology that creates a virtual geographic boundary around a device. “Maybe we can ask them for some geofencing help with speed and these other issues.”
Working Group in the Making
Provincetown’s four-committee housing workshop on June 20 decided to create a working group to develop regulations on short-term rentals for town leaders to bring to a future town meeting.
That there is a need for short-term rental regulations of some kind was widely agreed, although the specifics generated some contention at the workshop.
The primary problem was how to set up a working group that could begin to meet quickly, without a long interview and appointment process, yet not be limited to members of the boards.
Unable to neatly square that circle, the group decided to have one or two members from each board figure out a workable public engagement plan for the select board to vote on. —Paul Benson
