Government
Voters in Aquinnah gather tonight for their annual town meeting, marking the end of the annual town meeting season on the Vineyard.
Edgartown selectmen Monday turned down 11 North restaurant’s proposal to make the restaurant wheelchair accessible, with selectmen and town officials saying they didn’t like the plan to use town property for a wheelchair ramp and chastising the restaurant for not dealing with the issue earlier.
Aquinnah voters will gather for their annual town meeting on Tuesday, concluding the town meeting season on the Island.
Voters will take up a 12 per cent operating budget hike for the coming year and funding for a variety of work associated with a project to relocate the historic Gay Head Light.
Annual and special town meetings begin at 6:45 p.m. at the Aquinnah town hall.
Traffic impacts were a chief concern as informal public discussion around expansion plans for the Vineyard Haven Stop & Shop began before the town selectmen Tuesday night.
The project, which would double the size of the existing grocery store on Water street, will be formally reviewed by the Martha’s Vineyard Commission as a development of regional impact beginning next month. Stop & Shop spokesmen have been meeting with the commission land use planning subcommittee for a number of weeks. The first public hearing before the commission will be held June 6.
