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Planning board backs changes to ADU and secondary-dwelling rules, with caveats

Nantucket Planning Board · February 10, 2026
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Summary

The board recommended Article 51, which merges garage-apartment language into the secondary-dwelling/ADU framework and alters the use chart in several districts; members asked staff to clarify size limits, attached/detached wording, and impacts on pattern-of-development before town meeting.

The planning board voted to forward Article 51, proposed edits to the zoning use chart and dwelling definitions that would fold garage-apartment language into a reworked secondary-dwelling and ADU framework and remove some legacy terms. Staff explained the objective is to simplify definitions and avoid dual terms that create…

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