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Update: Housing bank sweeps to victory - The Martha's Vineyard Times

West Tisbury, Edgartown, Oak Bluffs, and Tisbury voters have all approved housing bank legislation for Martha’s Vineyard in a clean sweep for proponents of affordable and workforce housing on the Island.  While Tuesday was a huge step for the housing bank, which proposes to use a 2 percent transfer fee on the sale of property […]
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O'Connell: 'We have an Island housing crisis' - The Martha's Vineyard Times

Daniel O’Connell knows a thing or two about housing and the effects it can have on the business community. When Gov. Deval Patrick was in office, he tapped O’Connell to be the commonwealth’s first secretary of housing and economic development. “Gov. Patrick was the first governor to decide to merge the two — thinking they […]
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MVC approves IGI expansion - The Martha's Vineyard Times

The Martha’s Vineyard Commission approved Island Grown Initiative’s phase 1 of its master plan at their meeting Thursday night.  The nonprofit proposes a new, one-story, 3,200-square-foot education and innovation center for offices and educational spaces, three seasonal yurts 16 feet in diameter each, and two new employee housing buildings at the farm’s property in Tisbury. […]
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MVC closes IGI expansion hearing  - The Martha's Vineyard Times

Commissioners closed the public hearing on Island Grown Initiative’s expansion project and left the written record open until Feb. 17. The nonprofit proposes a new, one-story, 3,200-square-foot education and innovation center for offices and educational spaces, three seasonal yurts 16 feet in diameter each, and two new employee housing buildings at the farm’s property in […]
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West Tisbury accepts housing bank warrant article - The Martha's Vineyard Times

West Tisbury became the fifth of six Island towns to put a housing bank article on this spring’s annual town meeting. During a Zoom meeting Wednesday, the select board unanimously approved putting the Coalition to Create the Martha’s Vineyard Housing Bank’s article on the warrant. Oak Bluffs, which meets Tuesday, is now the only town […]
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Edgartown delays housing bank article again - The Martha's Vineyard Times

A little more fine tuning. That’s what the Edgartown select board would like to see before they’re ready to put the proposed housing bank article on the town’s annual town meeting warrant. At a meeting Monday, board members told members of the Coalition to Create the Martha’s Vineyard Housing Bank’s steering committee to take another […]
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WT Rich, modular classrooms greenlit - The Martha's Vineyard Times

During a marathon meeting that started with an executive session at 3 pm and ended 4½ hours later with an announcement of another meeting on Friday, the Tisbury select board unanimously approved an agreement to secure WT Rich as construction manager at risk for the Tisbury School project.  The vote was subject to adjustments made […]
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