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Nantucket HDC backs CLG role on NPEDC, sends multiple projects back for revisions

Nantucket Historic District Commission · January 14, 2026
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Summary

At its Jan. 13 meeting the Nantucket Historic District Commission unanimously supported giving the town's CLG authority to appoint a historic-preservation sector representative to the Nantucket Planning and Economic Development Commission and moved several high-profile applications (notably 115 Cliff Road and 30 North Beach) to revision with staff-minute requirements and a warning about the commission's '2-strikes' practice.

The Nantucket Historic District Commission on Tuesday voted unanimously to support a proposal to let the town's Certified Local Government (CLG) serve as the appointing authority for a historic-preservation sector seat on the Nantucket Planning and Economic Development Commission (NPEDC).

Leslie Snell, the town's planning director, told commissioners the NPEDC wants a sector-based appointment process to broaden candidates beyond board appointees and to allow people steeped in preservation but not currently serving on a commission to be considered. "They want to widen the pool of candidates to be considered for an annual appointment," Snell said during the discussion.

The vote followed brief questions and support from commissioners; Chair (unidentified) instructed Kathy (staff) to draft a letter to the NPEDC and the motion…

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