Article 1. Zoning Bylaw Amendment: Retail Marijuana Moratorium – Creates a “Retail Marijuana” use under zoning and places a moratorium on the use until the end of 2018. This delay is intended to let the State issue its rules first, which are expected to come out after the 2018 Annual Town Meeting in April.
Two-Thirds Vote Required
Article 2. Zoning Bylaw Amendment: Retail and Medical Marijuana – Creates the “Marijuana Establishment Retail” and “Marijuana Treatment Center Medical” uses in the zoning code, provides that these uses are allowed by Special Permit in the Commercial Neighborhood (CN) and Commercial Industrial (CI) zones, and provides for citing standards, like requiring that these be single uses on a lot, requiring 500’ buffers from schools and day care facility (already an existing state law), and requiring them to enter into Host Community Agreements with the Town.
Two-Thirds Vote Required
Article 3. Local Option Tax on Sale of Recreational Marijuana – Adopts a state law that allows for a sales tax on recreational Marijuana. This 3% would be on top of the state sales tax on it.
Article 4. Supplemental Appropriation: Fire Station – Seeks funds to build the new fire station.
Article 5. Supplemental Appropriation: Airport Capital Project – Seeks $400k to finish a runway project at the airport.
Two-Thirds Vote Required
Article 6. Appropriation: Infrastructure Improvements – Seeks funds for sewer improvements outside of town.
Article 7. Bylaw Amendment: District Improvement Financing/Lowell – Creates a fund that would capture increased taxes based on development in the Old South Road corridor, and would allow for the funds to be used to improve that area.
Article 8. Tom Nevers Bike Path/Ringer – Moves to have the TN bike path jump to the top of the capital projects list.
Article 9. Appropriation/Real Estate Acquisition: 71 Washington Street – Reappropriates money left over from improving the Boulevarde and Lovers Lane to acquire a portion of 71 Washington Street (the NISDA Cottages) to improve the traffic at that corner.
Two-Thirds Vote Required
Article 10. Real Estate Conveyance: Open Space Parcel (Creeks) to the Land Bank – Authorizes the Town to transfer the beach at the Creeks to the Land Bank.
Article 11. Real Estate Conveyance: Madequecham Parcels – Authorizes the Town to transfer three Madaquecham Valley lots to the Land Bank.
Two-Thirds Vote Required
Article 12. Real Estate Acquisition: Miscellaneous Parcels – Authorizes the Town to take several Paper Roads and a tax lot for the Yard Sale program.
Article 13. Real Estate Conveyance: Easement to National Grid/Sea Street Sewer Pump Station – Authorizes the Town to grant a utility easement to National Grid.
Article 14. Real Estate Conveyance: Industrial Land/Williams – Authorizes the Town to lease out land off Bunker Road.
Article 15. Bylaw Amendments: Board of Sewer Commissioners/Sewer District Map Change – Bartlett Farm Road and Hummock Pond Road/Hanley – Adds this area to the sewer district, which would potentially allow for less septic systems but more development. It does not allow more subdivision.
Two-Thirds Vote Required
Article 16. Bylaw Amendments: Board of Sewer Commissioners/Sewer District Map Change and Zoning Map Change: LUG-2 to R-40 – 1 Wherowhero Lane/Meredith – Adds this area to the sewer district, which would potentially allow for less septic systems but more development. The Lot size would go from 80,000 SF to 40,000 SF.
Two-Third Vote Required
Article 17. Zoning Bylaw Amendment: Technical Amendments – Statutory Changes – Updates the zoning bylaw to follow changes in state law so that use of a permit has to be started within one year (not 6 months), is good for 3- years (not 2 years), and that structures that are zoning violations and are more than 10 years old become legally nonconforming (not just unenforceable violations).
Two-Thirds Vote Required
Article 18. Zoning Bylaw Amendment: Technical Amendments – Definitions – Makes clarifications to definitions of Bakery, Breezeway, Duplex, ground cover, hot tub, second dwelling, street, structure, and porch to either fix technical problems or resolve permitting concerns that have arisen. Of note, the definitions become more permissive for semi-enclosed spaces, but more restrictive for what counts as a non-ground cover shed.
Two-Thirds Vote Required
Article 19. Zoning Bylaw Amendment: Technical Amendments – Miscellaneous – Updates the zoning bylaw to better reflect current practices for split-zone lots, for open space in commercial lots, for driveways on cluster subdivisions, and for other technical corrections.
Two-Thirds Vote Required
Article 20. Zoning Bylaw Amendment: Multi-Family Development Options – Provides for more Apartment and Apartment Building options, with Special Permits.
Two-Thirds Vote Required
Article 21. Zoning Bylaw Amendment: Commercial Storage Containers – Creates a use under the zoning code for metal storage containers and allows them by Special Permit in the Commercial Neighborhood (CN), Commercial Industrial (CI) and Commercial, Trade, Entrepreneur, and Craft (CTEC) districts.
Two-Thirds Vote Required
Article 22. Zoning Bylaw Amendment: Workforce Rental Community/Williams – Provides that Workforce Rental Housing buildings can be up to 35 feet in height by Special Permit
Two-Thirds Vote Required
Article 23. Zoning Map Change: LUG-2 to LUG-1 – 56 South Shore Road/Williams – Extends the prior change from 80,000 SF lots to 40,000 SF lots to include one additional lot.
Two-Thirds Vote Required
Article 24. Zoning Map and Town and Country Overlay District Change: 3-9 South Shore Road/Williams – Adds this area to the Town District and changes lot size from 80,000 SF to 40,000 SF which would potentially allow for less septic systems but more development and more lots.
Two-Thirds Vote Required
Article 25. Zoning Map Change: LUG-2 to R-40 – 2 Daffodil Lane/Murphy – Extends the prior change from 80,000 SF lots to 40,000 SF lots to include one additional lot.
Two-Thirds Vote Required
Article 26. Home Rule Petition: Amending the Membership of the Nantucket Planning & Economic Development Commission by Removing the Superintendent of the Department of Public Works – Removes the DPW Director, a town employee, from the NP&EDC.
Article 27. Acceptance of Massachusetts General Law: Authority to Establish Regulatory 20 mph Safety Zones – Adopts a state law that authorizes new 20 MPH speed limits, which were previously not enforceable.