The URL can be used to link to this page

Home My WebLink About110915 BOS STM warrant FINAL COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS TOWN OF NANTUCKET WARRANT FOR Monday, November 9, 2015 SPECIAL TOWN MEETING Nantucket High School Mary P. Walker Auditorium 6:00 PM Town of Nantucket 16 Broad Street Nantucket, MA 02554 (508) 228-7255 www.nantucket-ma.gov 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 MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9 2015 AT 6:00 PM, THEN AND THERE TO ACT ON THE ARTICLES CONTAINED WITH THE ENCLOSED WARRANT: ********************************************************************* To act upon and transact any business relative to the foregoing subjects which may, then and there, come before said meeting. ARTICLE 1 (Zoning Map Change: R-20 to R-5 -- Daffodil Lane and Mayflower Circle; LUG-2 to CN -- Davkim Lane; LUG-2 to R-5 -- Evergreen Way) To see if the Town will vote to amend the Zoning Map of the Town of Nantucket by taking the following actions: 1. By placing the following properties currently located in the Residential-20 (R-20) district in the Residential-5 (R-5) district: Map Lot Number Street 68 739 30 Daffodil Lane 68 740 32 Daffodil Lane 68 741 34 Daffodil Lane 68 742 35 Daffodil Lane 68 736 3 Mayflower Circle 68 729 4 Mayflower Circle 68 735 5 Mayflower Circle 68 730 6 Mayflower Circle 68 734 7 Mayflower Circle 68 731 8 Mayflower Circle 68 733 9 Mayflower Circle 68 732 10 Mayflower Circle 68 A Portion of Mayflower Circle, starting at a location formed by a line connecting the eastern property boundaries of the lots shown as 3 Mayflower Circle and 4 Mayflower Circle and extending in a westerly direction to include the bulb of the existing cul-de-sac of Mayflower Circle, being the westerly portion of Lot # 615 on Land Court Plan 16514-40. Page 1 Town of Nantucket November 9, 2015 Special Town Meeting Warrant 68 A Portion of Daffodil Lane, starting at a location formed by a line connecting the eastern property boundaries of the lots shown as 35 Daffodil Lane and 3 Mayflower Circle and extending in a westerly direction to include the bulb of the existing cul-de-sac of Daffodil Lane, being the westerly portion of Lot # 663 on Land Court Plan 16514-40. 2. By placing the following property currently located in the Limited Use General-2 (LUG-2) district in the Commercial-Neighborhood (CN) district: Map Lot Number Street 68 56.1 20(R) Davkim Lane 3. By placing the following properties currently located in the Limited Use General-2 (LUG-2) district in the Residential-5 (R-5) district: Map Lot Number Street 68 711 24 Evergreen Way 68 712 26 Evergreen Way 68 713 28 Evergreen Way 68 714 30 Evergreen Way All as shown on a map entitled “2015 Special Town Meeting Warrant Article __ R-20 to R-5: Daffodil Lane and Mayflower Circle: LUG-2 to CN – Davkim Lane: and LUG-2 to R-5: Evergreen Way” dated October 2015 and filed herewith at the Office of the Town Clerk. Or to take any other action related thereto. (Philip Pastan, et al) ARTICLE 2 (Zoning Bylaw Amendment: Workforce Housing) To see if the Town will vote to amend the Code of the Town of Nantucket, Chapter 139 (Zoning), by taking the following actions: 1. Amend section 2 (definitions) to insert a new definition of “workforce housing” and to amend the existing definitions of “apartment building”, “affordable housing”, “apartment”, “eligible household”, “Nantucket Housing Needs Ownership Form”, to the extent necessary or required, and to insert any new definition or amend any existing definition to the extent necessary or required to implement the overall objectives of this article. 2. Amend section 7A (use chart) by inserting a new use(s) related to workforce housing dwelling units as necessary or required; Page 2 Town of Nantucket November 9, 2015 Special Town Meeting Warrant 3. Insert a new section 8D, and/or to amend 8C, to provide new language, the purpose of which is as follows: a. To incentivize the creation of workforce and affordable rental and ownership housing opportunities; b. To promote consistency, quality, and flexibility in the site layout and design; c. To mitigate traffic congestion by encouraging the creation of compact neighborhoods proximate to compatible adjacent commercial uses that reduce the need for vehicle trips to already congested areas, and; d. To promote economic vitality and a greater diversity of housing opportunities in compliance with objectives contained within plans adopted or accepted by the Town of Nantucket, Nantucket Planning and Economic Development Commission, or the Nantucket Housing Authority. 4. Insert a new section 8D and/or amend 8C to provide new language for the allowance of density bonuses by the issuance of a special permit granted by the Planning Board, as follows: a. To allow the aggregation of lots for apartment buildings for workforce housing at a density of 1 unit per 1,250 square feet of lot area in the CN district with a maximum of 20 dwelling units containing up to 40 bedrooms on a single lot; b. To alter or remove the minimum lot size, frontage, setback(s), ground cover ratio, and regularity formula compliance as designated in section 16 for lots within the R-5 district. c. To establish minimum “affordability” criteria, programmatic and design standards, including, but not limited to: establishing minimum percentages of units restricted based on income limits between 50% and 200% of the annual area median income, establishing the minimum duration of affordability restrictions, establishing interior and exterior features/finishes to marking rate units, requiring equal disbursement among market rate units. 5. To amend sections 16 (change 33 reference to 30) and 18 (specify apartment, apartment building, workforce housing apartment), 20 (screening waived where lots are in common ownership), 23 (exempt SF and duplex from site plan review), and any other section of the Bylaw implement the overall objectives of this article. Or, to take any other action related thereto. (Philip Pastan, et al) Page 3 Town of Nantucket November 9, 2015 Special Town Meeting Warrant ARTICLE 3 (Appropriation: Brant Point Boat House Renovation/Shellfish Propagation Facility) To see what sums the Town will vote to appropriate, and also to raise, borrow pursuant to any applicable statue or transfer from available funds, to be spent by the Town Manager with the approval of the Board of Selectmen, to pay costs for renovating and equipping the Brant Point Boat House/Shellfish Propagation Facility located at 2A Easton Street, including the costs of professional services for design, permitting, architecture, construction supervision, and other related professional services and any other costs incidental and related thereto; and to take any other action related thereto. (Board of Selectmen) ARTICLE 4 (Appropriation: Our Island Home Design of New Facility) To see what sums the Town will vote to appropriate, and also to raise, borrow pursuant to any applicable statue or transfer from available funds, to be spent by the Town Manager with the approval of the Board of Selectmen, to pay costs of professional services for design, permitting, architecture, construction supervision, and other related professional services for the construction of a new facility for Our Island Home, including all costs incidental and related thereto; and to take any other action related thereto. (Board of Selectmen) ARTICLE 5 (Appropriation: Fire Station) To see what sums the Town will vote to appropriate, and also to raise, borrow pursuant to any applicable statue or transfer from available funds, to be spent by the Town Manager with the approval of the Board of Selectmen, to supplement the previous appropriation made under Article 11 of the 2015 Annual Town Meeting to pay costs for constructing a new fire station at 4 Fairgrounds Road, including the costs of professional services for design, permitting, architecture, construction supervision, and other related professional services and any other costs incidental and related thereto; and to take any other action related thereto. (Board of Selectmen) ARTICLE 6 (Home Rule Petition: Real Estate Conveyances from Nantucket Islands Land Bank to Town of Nantucket) To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Board of Selectmen to petition the General Court consistent with the requirements of Article 97 of the Amendments to the Massachusetts Constitution to enact special legislation to authorize the transfer and conveyance of certain parcels of land in the Town of Nantucket owned by the Nantucket Islands Land Bank and held for open space, recreational or conservation purposes, as described in more detail below and as shown on a map entitled “2015 Special Town Meeting Warrant Article/Land Bank-School Land Transfer Proposal” dated October, 2015 and filed with the Office of the Town Clerk, to the Town of Nantucket to be Page 4 Town of Nantucket November 9, 2015 Special Town Meeting Warrant administered by the Nantucket School Department for recreational purposes; provided , however, that the General Court may with the approval of the Board of Selectmen, make constructive changes in language as may be necessary or advisable towards perfecting the intent of this legislation in order to secure passage; AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE NANTUCKET ISLANDS LAND BANK TO CONVEY CERTAIN LAND HELD FOR OPEN SPACE, RECREATIONAL OR CONSERVATION PURPOSES TO THE TOWN OF NANTUCKET FOR THE SAME PURPOSES Be it enacted by the Senate and the House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: Section 1. Pursuant to Article 97 of the Amendments to the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, the Nantucket Islands Land Bank may transfer, sell, convey or otherwise dispose of certain parcels of land situated in the Town of Nantucket to the Town of Nantucket for open space, recreational or conservation purposes and described as follows: -- Assessor’s Map 67, Parcel 481 -- Assessor’s Map 67, Parcel 121 -- Assessor’s Map 67, Parcel 400 -- Assessor’s Map 67, Parcel 401 -- Assessor’s Map 67, Parcel 402 -- Assessor’s Map 67, Parcel 398 -- Assessor’s Map 67, Parcel 397 -- Assessor’s Map 67, Parcel 396 -- Assessor’s Map 67, Parcel 395 -- Assessor’s Map 67, Parcel 394 -- A portion of Pilot Whale Lane abutting the parcels described above. Section 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Or to take any other action related thereto. (Board of Selectmen for Nantucket Islands Land Bank) ARTICLE 7 (Correction to Article 7 (Compensation Schedule C) of 2015 Annual Town Meeting) To see if the Town will vote to correct the Town Clerk’s salary for Fiscal Year 2016 as voted at the 2015 Annual Town Meeting from $93,421 to $95,289 and to take any other action related thereto. (Board of Selectmen) NOTE: This is to correct an error. The Town Clerk’s salary was to have been increased to $95,289 at the 2015 Annual Town Meeting and it inadvertently was not reflected that way in the Finance Committee Motion. Page 5 Town of Nantucket November 9, 2015 Special Town Meeting Warrant ********************************************************************* 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 14th day of October in the year Two Thousand Fifteen. ____________________________________ Robert R. DeCosta, Chairman ____________________________________ Matthew G. Fee, Vice Chairman ____________________________________ Rick Atherton ____________________________________ Tobias Glidden ____________________________________ Dawn E. Hill Holdgate SELECTMEN OF NANTUCKET, MA Pursuant to Chapter 39, section 10 of the General Laws of the Commonwealth and the Warrant adopted October 14, 2015 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, ___________________________________________________ Catherine Flanagan Stover, Constable Page 6 Town of Nantucket November 9, 2015 Special Town Meeting Warrant