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, Sept. 19
- Pier Commission, 2 p.m.
- Open Space Committee, 4 p.m., online only
- Board of Health, 4 p.m.
- Zoning Board of Appeals, 6 p.m.
Monday, Sept. 23
- Community Preservation Committee, 4 p.m.
- Select Board, 6 p.m.
Tuesday, Sept. 24
- Licensing Board, 5 p.m.
Wednesday, Sept. 25
- Harbor Committee, 2 p.m.
- Long Point Dike presentation, 5 p.m.
Thursday, Sept. 26
- Planning Board, 6 p.m.
Conversation Starters
New Napiville Owners
Boston lawyer Eliot Parkhurst is scheduled to speak at the board of health meeting on Thursday, Sept. 19 about the residential compound at 25-27A Bradford St. known as “Napiville,” after its former owner, Anton “Napi” Van Dereck Haunstrup, who died in 2019.
Parkhurst’s client, Davis Heights LLC, is recorded in town documents as having purchased the seven-building, 12-unit property on Aug. 7 for $1.8 million. Because the LLC is incorporated in Delaware, which enables corporate officers’ identities to be concealed, the Independent has not been able to ascertain who owns or controls the company.
Provincetown real estate agent Kevin Bazarian applied for seven long-term rental certificates and a building permit for emergency roof repairs at the property in early September.
Whether Bazarian, who in 2015 became an owner of the Clarendon House on Bradford Street, is an owner of Davis Heights LLC or acting on the owners’ behalf should become clear during Parkhurst’s presentation.
Breakwater Meeting
A presentation by the Army Corps of Engineers and town staff on Sept. 25 will update the progress of a plan to install one or more breaks in the Long Point Dike, more commonly known in town as the West End breakwater.
A feasibility study on these breaks was begun in 2014 at the town’s request but then shelved after public pushback. Now that the Army Corps is resuming the study, again at the town’s request, it is seeking public input early in the process.
Bridges would be installed over the new breaks to allow pedestrians to continue to walk across the breakwater to Long Point.
The channelized flow of tides through the gaps, however, could have significant effects on the salt flats on both sides of the breakwater, which has raised concerns from those who shellfish recreationally there. —Paul Benson
