The Martha s Vineyard Times
Surprise rollback of Tisbury SUPÂ
Planning board and MVC members express reservations.
The Tisbury select board approved a reduction in scope Tuesday night for the Beach Road project. -Rich Saltzberg
Over the course of a marathon four-hour meeting Tuesday night, the Tisbury select board made a number of major decisions, led by a unanimous vote to narrow the scope of the Beach Road shared-use path (SUP) project. The vote, which took place at around 9 pm Tuesday night at a meeting that started at 5, essentially eliminated dedicated off-the-roadway paths for bicycles.
The vote followed a report from town administrator Jay Grande that indicated the Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) informed the town Friday that it was willing to pare down aspects of the project that impacted local infrastructure, such as sewer lines. Grande reminded the board Tisbury town counsel David Doneski sent a letter to MassDOT on March 5 to expre
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Sovereign land owned by the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head is seen on the western edge of Martha’s Vineyard. The Massachusetts tribe wants to build a bingo casino on its property. (Image: Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head)
The Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) is one of two federally recognized tribes in Massachusetts. Its sovereign home is on the western-most part of Martha’s Vineyard on remote and largely vacant land, roughly a dozen miles west of the island’s picturesque vacation towns.
The tribe has argued that the Martha’s Vineyard Commission and officials in Aquinnah and Gay Head are impeding its gaming development by stalling land-use approvals and other regulatory building permits. The US First Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in February that the tribe must obtain such licenses from the towns.