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Planning board approves preliminary plan for Fairgrounds Road subdivision despite community concern over restaurant site
Summary
The Nantucket Planning Board approved a preliminary plan from Fairgrounds LLC to subdivide the former Fairgrounds restaurant property into nine lots after hearing residents’ concerns about preserving transit access and potential easements; staff and the applicant said detailed engineering and stormwater review will follow at the definitive stage.
The Nantucket Planning Board on a unanimous vote approved a preliminary plan from Fairgrounds LLC to subdivide 25 and 27 Fairgrounds Road — the site that formerly housed the Fairgrounds restaurant — into nine lots, eight intended to be buildable, and a roadway lot.
The proposal, presented by Paul Santos of Nantucket Surveyors LLC on behalf of the applicant, calls for a 25-foot paved roadway, a cul-de-sac designed for fire apparatus, underground utilities, municipal water and sewer service, and a combination of surface swales and subsurface infiltration for stormwater management because the site lies in DEP Zone 2 and the Nantucket Public Wellhead Recharge District.
Board members and public commentators urged the…
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