At a Wednesday meeting, Martha’s Vineyard Commission’s joint affordable housing group honed in on how to encourage Island towns’ select boards to begin considering use of revenue from short term rental (STR) taxes for affordable housing for year-round residents. Since the short term-rental tax bill was codified in 2018 and went into effect in 2019, […]
A change in leadership took place in the West Tisbury affordable housing committee during its Tuesday evening meeting, with one committee member taking an unspecified hiatus and another member abruptly resigning. Michael Colaneri, who was absent for the meeting, stepped down as chair. “Mike is going to step down for a while,” committee member Ted […]
The West Tisbury select board held a joint meeting with the town’s affordable housing committee to discuss “process issues, roles, and responsibilities” during a Monday evening meeting. Board chair Cynthia Mitchell started by saying the committee has done a “fantastic job” in “bringing meaningful results.” “That said, we’ve got some issues,” Mitchell said, adding that […]
In a jammed-packed meeting consisting of four public hearings Thursday, the Martha’s Vineyard Commission mulled over a senior living facility, residential demolition, marina reconstruction, and a West Tisbury commercial space. The commission discussed a request from Michael Morrison, agent for 43 Look St. in Tisbury, to demolish the existing four-bedroom 1,920 square-foot house, and replace […]
Uncertainty remains on whether South Mountain Company, which withdrew from the 401 State Road affordable housing project, will return to it. South Mountain Co. CEO John Abrams recently sent a letter to Island Housing Trust (IHT) CEO Phillipe Jordi about the company’s decision to withdraw from the project because of issues with the West Tisbury […]