Meetings Ahead
Most meetings in Provincetown are held in person, typically with an online-attendance option. 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, March 14
- Personnel Board, 8 a.m., online only
- Charter Compliance Commission, 1 p.m.
- Finance Committee, 2 p.m.
- Board of Registrars, 2 p.m.
- Planning Board, 6 p.m.
Monday, March 18
- Groundbreaking at Cannery Wharf Park, 9 a.m., 387 Commercial St.
- Community forum for Municipal Parking and Multi-Use Path Study, 5 p.m.
- Motta Field Project information forum, 6 p.m., Veterans Memorial Community Center
Tuesday, March 19
- Disability Commission, 9 a.m., online only
- Cultural Council, 5:30 p.m.
- Conservation Commission, 6 p.m.
Wednesday, March 20
- Ribbon-cutting at new police station, noon, 2 Jerome Smith Road
- Historic District Commission, 3:30 p.m.
Thursday, March 21
- Board of Health, 4 p.m.
- Zoning Board of Appeals, 6 p.m.
Conversation Starter
Duelling Forums
Town residents will have their choice of civic engagements on Monday, March 18: a public forum on the Route 6 Multi-Use Path and Parking Study will be held at 5 p.m. at town hall, while a public forum on the Motta Field Redevelopment project will be held at 6 p.m. at the Veterans Memorial Community Center.
Both projects are on the April 1 town meeting warrant. The Motta Field redevelopment is financed by Article 8, an $11.7-million debt exclusion measure — although Town Manager Alex Morse told the select board on March 11 that he was working on a less expensive version of the plan that he might offer as an amendment on town meeting floor. The savings, he said, come from eliminating a retaining wall on the south edge of the property near the Pilgrim Monument and Provincetown Museum’s parking lot.
That retaining wall helps create additional space on the field to support bocce and shuffleboard courts and an outdoor exercise park with stationary equipment, Morse told the board.
Meanwhile, the open space committee sponsored Article 28, which would dedicate the Old Colony Nature Trail as passive recreation space “in perpetuity.” The trail features in the town’s ongoing Route 6 Municipal Parking and Multi-Use Path study as a possible site for a bicycle trail that could connect riders to Truro, but protecting it in this way would mean leaving it unpaved.
The town’s survey about parking and the multi-use path is still online at surveymonkey.com/r/ptownsurvey. —Paul Benson
