The select board voted last Tuesday to allocate $50,000 to begin designing the utility system for the proposed affordable housing development.
As the Island continues to struggle with its housing crisis, Chilmark is offering one-time cash incentives of up to $12,000 to homeowners who convert their properties from vacation rentals to year-round rentals.
The latest influx of cash will help chip away at the Chilmark project’s current $5 million budget shortfall, and could prompt a special town meeting later this year on the housing proposal.
Chilmark may be poised to send out a request for proposals to construct an affordable housing complex off Pasture Road six years after the idea was first hatched.
The Peaked Hill Pastures affordable housing development has been in process for years now, with a planning board subcommittee initiating work on the concept back in 2018.
The Chilmark planning board will send out a request for proposals for the Peaked Hill Pastures affordable housing project approved at town meeting last year.