Chilmark Site Review Committee referred stairs application to Zoning Board. The committee on August 10 reviewed an application from Guimaraes Brothers to construct a secondary egress stairway at 90 Hammett Road, owned by Stephen L. and Joan S. Kass.
Select Board and Planning Board jointly discussed a cell tower zoning bylaw amendment intended for spring 2027 Annual Town Meeting.
Six property transfers were recorded in Chilmark between July 10 and Aug. 8, but only three had a sale price recorded. Recorded prices ranged from $506,387 to $2,000,000, with a median of $1,800,000. The period's top transaction was 37 N Abels Hill Rd, which sold for $2,000,000 on July 14 to Goldman
Chilmark Planning Board's Town Center Walkways Working Group discussed pedestrian safety improvements with Martha's Vineyard Commission representative Adam Turner.
Chilmark Conservation Commission approved an accessory dwelling unit at 32 Stonewall Road with environmental safeguards, voting 5-1. The project required conditions including a 50-year stormwater plan and mandatory native plantings in the buffer zone to an isolated wetland.
Chilmark Select Board approved fiscal 2027 goals establishing priorities for affordable housing, cell service improvements, and harbor dock repairs. Chairperson Jeffrey Maida, Vice Chair Matthew Poole, and Clerk Rebecca Lynn Haag voted unanimously to accept the objectives as a living document.
Chilmark's Site Review Committee cleared a proposed single-family home for referral to the Zoning Board of Appeals. Bryan Collins seeks to demolish an existing dwelling and build a new house on a 1.9-acre lot at 5 Ocean View Farm Road in the South Road Roadside District.
Chilmark Select Board unanimously approved $2,500 from the Wetlands Protection Fund for a conservation consultant on environmental case SE12-959.
The Chilmark Planning Board approved prior meeting minutes and continued two zoning bylaw public hearings. Chairperson Rich Osnoss opened the meeting with all seven voting members present.
The Up Island Council on Aging approved an accessibility letter for the Howes House on July 21, directing it to town administrators for discussion of short and long-term solutions. Council member Paul Bailey authored the letter.