Appeals Board Vetoes Garage

For a Second Time, Oak Bluffs Says It's an Illegal Structure; in Next Week's Chapter, a Request to Move It

By CHRIS BURRELL

They declared the building illegal, called the permit application perjurious and refused to resurrect a building permit for a three-story structure towering up from Joseph G. Moujabber's backyard in Oak Bluffs.

Ruling that the dire need for low-cost rental housing trumps traffic concerns, the Martha's Vineyard Commission voted unanimously last night to approve the Pennywise Path affordable housing project in Edgartown.

Oak Bluffs Hearing on Enlarged Garage Resumes Tomorrow

By CHRIS BURRELL

All set for Round Two of what has become a bruising political fight in Oak Bluffs, the zoning board of appeals could decide the fate tomorrow night of Joseph G. Moujabber's three-story garage in the North Bluff, a project that has enraged neighbors since last March.

The board meets Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. at the Oak Bluffs Council on Aging on Wamsutta avenue, continuing last week's public hearing that pulled in a feisty crowd of more than 70 people.

For the fifth summer in a row, a rare and potentially fatal disease called tularemia continues to surface on the Vineyard.

Citizenry of Oak Bluffs Raises Chorus of Protest Over Disputed Building

By CHRIS BURRELL

An indignant crowd of more than 70 people piled into last night's hearing of the Oak Bluffs zoning board of appeals and clamored for town leaders to tear down the three-story building in Joseph Moujabber's backyard.

Zoning board members were just as thorny, repeatedly questioning how Mr. Moujabber's $22,000 garage replacement could have turned into something more than 30 feet tall with balconies and sliding glass doors.

Armed with the results of an anonymous survey that praised the Chilmark School for it small class sizes and strong sense of community but was criti