Real Estate
The Chilmark planning board has the authority to regulate large houses through a special permitting process, but cannot simply place a cap on house size, the town attorney advised this week.
At the planning board meeting on Monday, town counsel Ronald H. Rappaport presented a legal framework for the planning board...
At a meeting marked by emotional exchanges between neighbors, the Chilmark zoning board of appeals voted unanimously this week to uphold the town building inspector’s decision to allow a large house compound on Nashaquitsa Pond.
And although money is coming in, executive director James Lengyel said the lank bank is not in the position to be acquiring new properties, with a still slumping real estate market. Last week, the land bank reported revenue of $0. Mr. Lengyel said a week without revenue is infrequent for the land bank, though it has happened before. The last time, he said, was within the last year.
