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Nantucket Conservation Commission approves Land Bank road relocation with strict habitat protections
Summary
The commission advanced a plan by the Nantucket Islands Land Bank to relocate an eroding dirt access road off Falmouth Avenue, granting a waiver under the wetlands bylaw for significant public benefit while attaching monitoring, signage, and preconstruction-plan conditions to protect rare habitat and NHESP review.
The Nantucket Conservation Commission on Jan. 8 advanced a proposal by the Nantucket Islands Land Bank to relocate a compromised portion of Falmouth Avenue and restore the abandoned road segment, but only after extensive debate over rare-habitat impacts and strict conditions.
The Land Bank’s representative, Liz Phelps, told the commission the relocation would move the southwest portion of the dirt access road away from erosion-prone areas and restore the abandoned corridor with sod and beach grass, and that most of the new road would lie outside the 50-foot coastal-dune buffer. Attorney Peter Vateri summarized waiver grounds tied to the…
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