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(May 16, 2024) As the dust settles from last week’s Town Meeting vote and a recent Land Court ruling, questions abound about what it all will mean for short-term rentals during this summer …

The Road to Town Meeting (May 2, 2024 ) For nearly five years, Town Meeting voters have been unable to decide how, if at all, to regulate short-term vacation rentals. The island has been split, …

(March 28, 2024) The town would be better served dealing with its shortterm rental issues through legislation, rather than an appeal of the recent Land Court decision, said Nina Pickering-Cook, who …

(Feb. 9, 2024) The Select Board has adopted the warrant for the 2024 Annual Town Meeting. Its 113 articles include the town’s own short-term rental bylaw, and proposals to amend car-rental …

( Jan. 25, 2024 ) Paul DeRensis, former town counsel and now attorney for Nantucket Tipping Point, is asking why the Select Board is reinserting itself into the fray surrounding Surfside Crossing. …

( Jan. 17, 2024 ) The Select Board voted unanimously to adopt the annual warrant for 2024 Town Meeting at Wednesday’s meeting. The 113 Articles in the warrant include the town’s own …

(Nov. 7, 2023: Update 7:23 p.m.)  Special Town Meeting voters on Nantucket Tuesday night rejected a series of short-term rental regulations  that would have prohibited future commercial ownership of STRs, restricted to one the number of STR properties per owner and  limited the number of times in the high season homes could be short-term rented.

(Nov. 2, 2023) In less than a week voters will head to a Special Town Meeting to decide the future of short-term rentals on Nantucket. A workgroup consisting of nine members spent the better …

The Good Neighbor Agreement requires the Nantucket Community to “support and promote the parties' mutual interests in renewable energy development…” Are the type of renewable energy projects listed above the kind the town of Nantucket and two non-profits want to support and promote? The Good Neighbor Agreement also requires the Nantucket parties to use “reasonable good faith efforts to ensure that Nantucket residents and visitors ar...

(Sept. 21, 2023) The Select Board will hear an appeal next week regarding the partial demolition of 9 Sherburne Way, a historic summer cottage built in the 1920s, that was approved by the …