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Historic commission approves town DPW’s new vehicle storage garage and salt shed with design changes
Summary
After multiple revisions, the commission approved the Town of Nantucket’s proposed vehicle storage and maintenance garage and a 30-foot salt shed at the Shadbush Road site, with conditions on materials, height and screening.
The Nantucket Historic District Commission on April 29 approved plans for a new vehicle-storage and maintenance garage and a salt shed for the Town’s Department of Public Works (DPW), following months of design review and revisions intended to reduce visibility and better fit the nearby industrial and airport-edge context.
Drew Patanoid, the town’s director of public works, and John Como of the project architect team presented the revised design for the 29,000-square-foot vehicle storage and maintenance garage and the adjacent salt shed. Patanoid said the site is east of the Nantucket Memorial Airport and adjacent to industrial properties, and that the structures would consolidate municipal equipment and increase storage capacity for materials the town needs to respond to winter operations.
Why it mattered: commissioners and preservation staff said the project is large but sits in an industrial portion of town with existing tall, non-shingled buildings. The HDC focused its review on…
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