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Nantucket Select Board debates mediation as short-term rental bylaws, tentatively schedules special town meeting
Summary
Select Board members, town counsel and dozens of residents spent more than two hours on July 23 weighing mediation, citizen articles and the timing of a special town meeting as the island faces a contested court ruling and competing bylaw proposals on short-term rentals.
Facing a recent land‑court judgment and competing citizen proposals, the Nantucket Select Board on July 23 opened an extended public discussion about whether to pursue private mediation among stakeholders or to proceed with a citizen‑driven special town meeting to rewrite short‑term rental rules. The board also tentatively set a date for a special town meeting in early November and agreed to develop a timeline for next steps.
The discussion came after weeks of private drafting and public calls for multiple, differing warrant articles on short‑term rentals. Town counsel George Pucci, of KP Law, described mediation mechanics to the board and public: "There would be a mediation agreement that would be signed at the beginning that parties agree to keep confidential the substance of the communications and the negotiations in the mediation," he said, adding that any written document that participants accept would be made public and identifiable as to who supported it.
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