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Petitioners present compromise to restructure Nantucket regional planning body; committee urges facilitated talks
Summary
Petitioner Hillary Hedges Rayport outlined a compromise to restructure Nantucket’s regional planning commission, proposing an 11-member body and revisions to appointment and reporting language; committee members pressed for clarity on residency, term limits and process and asked for another facilitated meeting before any motion.
Hillary Hedges Rayport, the lead petitioner on a long-range planning article that will appear on the town meeting warrant, presented a compromise to reshape the island’s regional planning body and urged the finance committee to help the petitioners and the NPDC (Nantucket Planning & Economic Development Commission) find a single version for voters.
“This is an article about governance and our planning commission,” Rayport said, identifying herself as a citizen petitioner and a planning-board-appointed member of the NPDC. She traced the initiative to an article first brought to town meeting in 2022 and said 18 people have signed the current warrant petition. Rayport said a facilitated meeting on Jan. 6 produced some progress…
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