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Nantucket commission advances Article 74 to broaden regional seats; committee urges merger with citizen petition
Summary
The Nantucket Planning and Economic Development Commission (MPEDC/NPEDC) briefed the Finance Committee on Article 74, proposing sector-based appointed seats and name changes to broaden participation; members urged negotiators to reconcile Article 74 with a similar citizen petition (Article 75) before town meeting.
The Finance Committee on Feb. 5 heard the Nantucket Planning and Economic Development Commission present Article 74, a proposal to recast the body as a broader regional commission with more appointed "sector" seats and fewer elected planning-board representatives.
The commission's vice chair, Mike Mizzarelli, told the committee the change aims to "broaden access to the commission for people in the community of Nantucket and emphasizing the regional piece." Abby, a staff member who presented slides, said the plan would reduce planning-board representation from five to three, add sector seats (land bank, conservation, housing-sector appointed by the Affordable Housing Trust, a CLG/historic-preservation seat) and convert three…
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