(May 31, 2021) The Select Board on Wednesday will discuss the town’s options for imposing a community impact fee on short-term vacation rentals.
Short-term rentals have been a hot topic in recent months, with a proposed article on Saturday’s Annual Town Meeting warrant seeking to regulate them by limiting the number of days a year they can be rented, the number of tenants per bedroom, establishing minimum stay times and other restrictions.
Opponents include the local real-estate community, year-round islanders who rent cottages or second dwellings to pay the bills, and long-time summer-residents who say they rely on short-term rentals year-round to pay the carrying costs of their Nantucket vacation homes.
Article sponsor ACK•Now, the political-action group whose stated mission is to protect Nantucket’s quality of life, says the proposal is necessary to mitigate the negative impacts short-term rentals pose to the island’s environment, traffic congestion and tranquility, and prevent more homes from being taken from the year-round housing inventory for conversion to investment properties by off-island companies.
The state law that allows towns to collect a rooms-occupancy tax on short-term vacation rentals also allows them to charge fees to address their impact on the community.
Wednesday's Select Board agenda also includes a post Memorial Day weekend report from the police, fire, licensing, health and public-works departments; a request from the Sewer Department for a waiver from the town’s noise bylaw; a request from the Department of Culture and Tourism to renew the town’s designation as a state cultural district; a report from the town’s diversity, equity and inclusion director; and the town manager’s pre-season beach update, update on town-project bids, including the Nobadeer field house, harbormaster building and F Street Pier in Madaket.
Also up for discussion are proposed amendments to the town’s harbor, waterways and town pier regulations, and a report from the Town Government Study Committee.
Click here to view the full agenda.
The meeting is scheduled to start at 5 p.m. Meetings are still being held remotely. Click here to view.
Check back to www.ack.net Thursday for a recap of Wednesday's meeting.
The board is also meeting Thursday in executive session to disuss a number of topics, including the potential purchase of the former Craig family property next to the Nantucket Boys & Girls Club. The vacant parcel was sold to D.J. MacKinnon's Atlantic Development in 2011, and is currently under long-term lease to Stop & Shop. It has been used for a number of things in recent years, including a staging area for construction materials for the new Nantucket Cottage Hospital.
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