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A fire last Friday morning destroyed a one-bedroom home in West Tisbury and sent one young person to the hospital to be treated for smoke inhalation and burn injuries. All three occupants of 123 Charles Neck Way were home when the fire broke out at around 2 a.m.
Bridge Housing has 14.9 acres of land on State Road in Vineyard Haven, and completed plans for 22 affordable houses on that site. It also has no money, little prospect of raising any money and a $2.35 million loan on which it is currently in default.
And it has written promises from the financially-strapped Island Affordable Housing Fund of more than $1 million for the development, Bridge Commons.
Amid ongoing questions about transparency and possible conflicts of interest among its board members, the Island Housing Trust on Saturday agreed to draft new selection criteria for all future affordable projects, in the process throwing out a pair of bids for the design phase of the Lake street affordable housing plan in Vineyard Haven.
íOver the objections of a few, including the county representative, the Martha’s Vineyard Commission last Thursday voted to adopt the Island plan, the ambitious and far-reaching initiative by the commission seeking to chart the Island’s course over the next 50 years.
A small group of Island farmers appeared before the Martha’s Vineyard Commission last Thursday to voice concerns over a proposal to nominate nearly all of the air space over the Island as a special protection zone to control the development of land-based wind turbines.
If it is designated, the district of critical planning concern would trigger a one-year moratorium on wind projects over 150 feet.
But the farmers said it might derail an innovative plan to build a network of wind turbines to provide electricity to farms and the public.
“Putting America to Work,” the oversized green sign announces at the razed ferry terminal near the North Bluff in Oak Bluffs, a site now littered with orange cones, hydraulic equipment and rubble. It is perhaps the most visible presence of federal stimulus money on the Vineyard, but the Island has been affected in many other ways both conspicuous and subtle by the recent influx of cash.