HomeMy WebLinkAboutOctober 10, 2018 Special Town Meeting II
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
TOWN OF NANTUCKET
WARRANT FOR
Wednesday, October 10, 2018
SPECIAL TOWN MEETING II
Nantucket High School
Mary P. Walker Auditorium
7:30 PM
Town of Nantucket
16 Broad Street
Nantucket, MA 02554
(508) 228-7255
www.nantucket-ma.gov
Page 1 Town of Nantucket October 10, 2018 Special Town Meeting II Warrant
To the Constables of the Town of Nantucket:
GREETING: In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are hereby directed to notify
and warn the inhabitants of the Town of Nantucket qualified to vote in Town affairs, to meet and assemble themselves at the Nantucket High School Auditorium at 10 Surfside
Road in said Nantucket, on
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2018 AT 7:30 PM,
THEN AND THERE TO ACT ON THE ARTICLES CONTAINED WITH THE ENCLOSED WARRANT:
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To act upon and transact any business relative to the foregoing subjects which may, then and there, come before said meeting.
ARTICLE 1
(Bylaw Amendment: Coastal Properties Owned by Town, Management of)
To see if the Town will vote to amend Chapter 67-1: E of the Code of the
Town of Nantucket as follows [Language to be deleted indicated by cross out. New
language is shown as highlighted text]:
E. Coastal land, leasing or licensing. Except as provided in Paragraph C, Leasing or
licensing for any Town- owned coastal land to a non-governmental body for private erosion-control protection purposes shall be subject to approval by vote at an
Annual or Special Town Meeting. Or take any other action relative thereto.
(Burton Balkind, et al)
ARTICLE 2
(Zoning Map Change: South Shore Road from LUG-2 to R-40) To see if the Town will vote to amend the Zoning Map of the Town of Nantucket
by placing the following properties currently located in the Limited Use General-2 (LUG-2) district in the Residential-40 (R-40) district:
Map Lot Number Street
67 336.7 9 S. Shore Road
67 336.8 7 S. Shore Road
67 336.9 5 S. Shore Road
67 336 3 S. Shore Road
All as shown on a map entitled “2018 Special Town Meeting Warrant Article” dated
August 2018 and filed herewith at the Office of the Town Clerk.
(Diane O’Neil, et al)
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ARTICLE 3 (Bylaw Amendment: Town Property, Conveyance of)
To see if the Town will vote to: enact the following limitation upon the transfer or use of real property interests or interests therein owned by or under the jurisdiction or
control of the town of Nantucket, as a new Section 46-5:
Nantucket code Section 46--5: In view of the release and spill of approximately three
million gallons of wastewater, more or less, from a sewer during the winter of 2018 and in order to reduce the risk of future such releases and spills and to protect the Nantucket
environment and the health, safety and welfare of town residents, now therefore in addition to any requirement applicable by law with respect to state or local permits or
approvals and notwithstanding Chapter 46 of the Town of Nantucket Town Code or any provision of the Town of Nantucket Town Code to the contrary, no transfer or use of real
property owned by or under the jurisdiction or control of the town of Nantucket, or
interests therein or license thereto, however described, including grants of rights to use or occupy whether by conveyance, lease, easement, grant, transfer or license (each
hereafter a "transfer"), of any real property owned by or under the jurisdiction or control of the town of Nantucket by deed, easement, grant, order, law or otherwise, including
but not limited to private ways on land owned by the town, private ways and easement
areas over which the town holds an easement for access, sewer or other purposes, and public street and ways, shall be authorized or approved by any town board, commission,
committee or official, to any private or non-governmental person or entity for the purpose of installing, operating, using or maintaining any wastewater sewer system
drain, main or pumping station, whether gravity or force sewer mains, unless such transfer or use of such real property owned by or under the jurisdiction or control of the
town of Nantucket or interest therein or license thereto shall have first been authorized
and approved by the voters by vote of town meeting of the town of Nantucket. Nothing in the above limitation shall apply to or prevent an individual property owner from
connecting, if otherwise permitted by law, to a town of Nantucket owned and operated sewer system at the individual property owner's frontage abutting such town of
Nantucket owned and operated sewer system. Or to take any other action related
thereto.
(Patrick W. Taaffe, et al)
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Hereof fail not and make due return of this Warrant with your doings thereon to the Town Clerk at the time and place of meeting and election aforesaid.
Given under our hands this 12th day of September in the year Two Thousand Eighteen.
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Jason M. Bridges, Chair
____________________________________ Dawn Hill Holdgate, Vice Chair
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Matthew G. Fee
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Rita Higgins
____________________________________ James R. Kelly
SELECT BOARD OF NANTUCKET, MA
Pursuant to Chapter 39, section 10 of the General Laws of the Commonwealth and the
Warrant adopted September 12, 2018, I have notified and warned the inhabitants of the
Town of Nantucket qualified to vote in Town affairs to appear at the times and place and
for the purposes within mentioned by posting said notification on __________________
at the Stop & Shop on Pleasant Street, the Town and County Building at 16 Broad
Street; and upon the Bulletin Boards at the corner of Main and Federal Streets, and
Siasconset Square.
Sworn to under pains and penalties of perjury,
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Constable