A straw poll taken at the Oak Bluffs special town meeting proved fruitless, when the select board voted to award a construction bid for the downtown streetscape project Tuesday.
A home rule petition to ban rental mopeds and a complicated land swap to create an affordable housing project easily passed muster with Oak Bluffs voters, but a controversial downtown streetscape plan took center stage.
Mopeds top the warrant for Tuesday’s special town meeting in Oak Bluffs, where voters will again weigh in on a home-rule petition asking state legislators to ban moped rentals in town.
Oak Bluffs took another step closer to its ambitious downtown streetscape reconstruction Tuesday, when the select board agreed to issue a request for proposals to rebuild Circuit avenue with wider sidewalks, new trees and planters and parallel parking.
A divided board gave a green light to a plan that includes changing the parking configuration on Circuit avenue. Later, selectmen threw a monkey wrench in a state project to extend the Beach Road bike path.
Plans to revamp downtown Oak Bluffs which include changing the angled parking on the upper part of Circuit avenue to parallel parking drew a mixed response Monday evening.