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Planning Board declines to advance Woodland Drive zoning change amid ADU, sewer and deed-restriction concerns
Summary
The board voted 3–2 to take no action on a proposal to change a Log 2 parcel on Woodland Drive to R‑20 after the developer offered deed restrictions but board members and the public raised unresolved issues about accessory dwelling units, sewer capacity and enforceability.
The Nantucket Planning Board voted 3–2 April 14 to take no action on a proposed zoning change that would move a portion of 13 Woodland Drive from Log 2 into R‑20, after extended debate over sewer availability, deed restrictions and state rules on accessory dwelling units (ADUs).
Developer Stephen Maury told the board he had negotiated a plan to reduce the number of potential dwellings on a five‑acre site from 15 to nine by recording private deed restrictions that would limit the number of buildable lots to nine and, he said, allow a ‘‘flex development’’ later to concentrate lots and provide open space. Maury said his goal remains to create “year‑round housing at attainable pricing,” but that he lacked sewer approval and subsidy from the Affordable Housing Trust, which made an attainably priced plan impractical without a zoning change.
The proposal drew sustained public comment and questions from board members about whether…
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