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 are held at Town Hall unless otherwise noted.
Thursday, Sept. 7
- Licensing Board, 4 p.m.
- Zoning Board of Appeals, 6 p.m.
Monday, Sept. 11
- Select Board Housing Workshop, 6 p.m.
Tuesday, Sept. 12
- Licensing Board, 5:15 p.m.
Wednesday, Sept. 13
- Coastal Resiliency Advisory Committee, noon
- Harbor Committee, 2 p.m.
- Cemetery Commission, 3 p.m.
Thursday, Sept. 14
- Board of Health, 4 p.m.
- Public Pier Corp. Board, 5 p.m.
- Planning Board, 6 p.m.
Conversation Starter
Housing Workshop
Four of Provincetown’s committees — the select board, planning board, community housing council, and Year-Round Market-Rate Rental Housing Trust — will meet jointly on Sept. 11 for a housing workshop that will help finalize the fall town meeting warrant and set the agenda for spring town meeting.
The fall town meeting is likely to include an article that would prohibit short-term rentals in dwellings owned by a corporation, although LLCs, trusts, and S corporations would be allowed so long as every member of the legal entity is a named natural person.
Individuals would be allowed only to have a legal ownership interest in up to three short-term rentals in Provincetown. Property management companies would still be allowed.
Provincetown’s town counsel, John Giorgio, has also been working on short-term rental regulations in Nantucket, where he also serves as town counsel, select board member Leslie Sandberg said at the Aug. 28 select board meeting.
“In Nantucket they had an issue because they were giving residents an advantage in terms of short-term rentals, and it violated the Commerce Clause,” Sandberg said.
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a short-term regulation from New Orleans in August 2022 for blocking nonresident property owners from the short-term rental industry altogether. The City of New Orleans reformulated its regulation and passed it back into law; litigation there is ongoing. —Paul Benson
Provincetown to Remember 9/11
Provincetown police, fire, and EMS personnel, along with representatives from Coast Guard Station Provincetown, will remember first responders and civilians who lost their lives in the Sept. 11 attacks in 2001. The community is cordially invited to attend.
The ceremony will be held at 9 a.m. on Monday, Sept. 11 on Shank Painter Road between the police and fire stations.
The police dept. and Coast Guard Station combined color guard will present the colors, and Jim Keefe will offer welcoming remarks. Denise Page will sing the National Anthem and “Amazing Grace.” The Rev. Robert Nee, Capt. E.J. Martinez, and Sgt. Chris Landry will offer prayers. And after a ceremonial volley led by Sgt. Kevin Spoor and the Provincetown Police Honor Guard, Mike Coelho will play taps. —Edward Miller
