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, Oct. 3
- Council on Aging, 10 a.m., Veterans Memorial Community Center
- Zoning Board of Appeals, 6 p.m.
Tuesday, Oct. 8
- Visitor Services Board, 1 p.m.
- Airport Commission, 2 p.m., Provincetown Airport
- Licensing Board, 5 p.m.
Wednesday, Oct. 9
- Harbor Committee, 2 p.m.
- Cemetery Commission, 3 p.m.
Thursday, Oct. 10
- Coastal Resilience Community Engagement, 3 p.m.
- Planning Board, 6 p.m.
Conversation Starter
Airport Commission
Provincetown’s airport commission is meeting on Oct. 8, and the agenda will likely include changes to the airport’s minimum standards for operation that apply to all scheduled air carriers, including Cape Air.
As previously reported in the Independent, Cape Air was still operating under a lease with the town of Provincetown when it sent its Aug. 30 letter announcing it would end service between Boston’s Logan Airport and Provincetown for more than six months beginning on Nov. 5.
The lease incorporates the town’s minimum standards for operation at the airport, which have not formally been changed since 1989. The airport commission has repeatedly discussed setting new minimum standards for scheduled air carriers such as Cape Air, and that conversation will likely continue at the Oct. 8 meeting and could proceed to a vote.
Coastal Resilience
Provincetown is holding its second coastal resilience engagement session at town hall, this time in the auditorium from 3 to 6 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 10.
The town’s consultants will make presentations at 3 and 5 p.m., and there will also be information stations set up around the auditorium with opportunities for question-and-answer sessions.
The event is focused on short- and long-term adaptation techniques and includes demonstrations of deployable stormwater barriers by several companies that make them.
Deployable barriers can operate at the scale of individual homes or blocks of homes and can be purchased by individuals or town governments. They offer a short-term solution for periodic storms that is still cheaper than elevating a house, which can easily surpass a quarter-million dollars per home. —Paul Benson
