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Thursday, July 8
- Planning Board, Town Hall, 6 p.m.
Monday, July 12
- Select Board, Town Hall, 6 p.m.
Tuesday, July 13
- Licensing Board, Town Hall, 5:15 p.m.
Wednesday, July 14
- Historical Commission, Library, 5 p.m.
Thursday, July 15
- Board of Health, 4 p.m.
- Cultural Council, Town Hall, 5:30 p.m.
- Zoning Board of Appeals, Town Hall, 6 p.m.
Conversation Starters
Dol-Fin Diving Into Nelson Ave.
The planning board will continue on July 8 to review a project at 50 Nelson Ave. that would add seven residential units to a lot with a single-family home. One unit will be deed-restricted as affordable housing.
The project is being built under the Inclusionary Housing Bylaw passed in 2016. It requires that a developer pay a fee that goes into an affordable housing fund. As the size of the development increases, so does the fee. For five new units, the fee is 15 percent of the average assessed value of a single unit. For six or more units, the developer can take advantage of a density bonus that allows for two additional market-rate units, provided one other unit is deed-restricted as affordable. This allows for eight units at 50 Nelson Ave.
Celine Gandolfo of Provincetown submitted a letter stating her objections. Anyone from Massachusetts could be eligible to live in the one affordable housing unit, she wrote, so “it does not solve any housing challenges in Provincetown.”
Gandolfo expressed concerns about disrupting bird migration and wildlife greenways as well as deforestation. She wrote that Provincetown’s forests provide much needed stability in the face of thin topsoil and shifting sands.
The application was filed on behalf of Dol-Fin Development LLC, which purchased the property in 2019 from the Susan O’Neil Nominee Trust. Elizabeth Barbeau, Lyn A. Plummer, and Maria A. Cirino are all listed as managers of Dol-Fin, which currently owns six properties in Provincetown. Cirino is co-founder and managing partner at .406 Ventures, a Boston-based venture capital firm. —Sophie Hills
Sal’s Beach Seats Losing Ground
Sal’s Place is still serving people on the beach, despite an injunction ordering them to stop doing it in front of their neighbor’s home.
The restaurant received a special permit to allow outdoor seating during the pandemic. Sal’s owners, Siobhan Carew and daughter Michela Carew-Murphy, would like to keep the tables on the beach for the summer. But their neighbor, Greg Connors, would like them to move from the beach in his back yard.
A Land Court judge imposed an injunction barring Sal’s from serving in front of Connors’s home. Town Manager Alex Morse said the town must enforce the injunction. But, so far, the select board has refused to act.
They were waiting for “clarification” of a question Carew asked the judge.
On June 30, the judge said the injunction still stands. Carew did not seek “clarification” but full-on “reconsideration of the decision,” wrote Jennifer Masello, sessions clerk to Justice Michael D. Vhay.
Carew-Murphy did not return a call for comment. Morse said the select board needs to obey the injunction. The board meets next on July 12, but Morse was not sure this matter would be on the agenda. —K.C. Myers