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 at Town Hall unless otherwise noted.
Thursday, Sept. 21
- Board of Health, 4 p.m.
- Zoning Board of Appeals, 6 p.m.
Friday, Sept. 22
- Select Board, 11:15 a.m.
Monday, Sept. 25
- Select Board, 6 p.m.
Tuesday, Sept. 26
- Airport Commission, 2 p.m.
- Licensing Board, 5:15 p.m.
Wednesday, Sept. 27
- Coastal Resiliency Advisory Committee, noon
- Harbor Committee, 2 p.m.
Thursday, Sept. 28
- Public Pier Corp. Board, 5 p.m.
- Planning Board, 6 p.m.
Conversation Starters
ZBA Questions
The zoning board of appeals has a packed agenda on Sept. 21, including two applications from businesses on Bradford Street. The Foxberry Inn is again seeking to add a third story with six guestrooms to the hotel at 29 Bradford St. Extension, while the Provincetown Brewing Co. is seeking a special permit for outdoor entertainment in its front patio at 141 Bradford.
Both applications have drawn objections from neighbors.
Robin Reid, lawyer for the Foxberry Inn, withdrew a similar application at the ZBA meeting on April 6 after 90 minutes of discussion.
The Brewing Co.’s outdoor entertainment application is before the ZBA for the first time.
An Open-and-Close Warrant
The select board will open the town meeting warrant, add a series of articles to it, and then close it again on Friday morning, Sept. 22.
The board has already discussed 15 articles that will likely appear: seven relatively small financial transfers and eight articles on housing.
The most controversial of those are likely to be two measures that would regulate short-term rentals in town, one by prohibiting corporations from holding rental certificates and another that would limit individuals to no more than two certificates.
Petitioned articles are possible at a special town meeting, but they are uncommon. It takes 10 signatures of voters to add an article to the annual meeting warrant but 100 for a special town meeting warrant. —Paul Benson
