Zoning Board Turns Down Appeals of Blasch Building Permit
The Blasch Del Mar LLC building permit was upheld by the Wellfleet Board of Zoning Appeals in a 4-1 decision on June 26, 2008. The Board rejected the appeals of the Board of Selectmen, Cape Cod National Seashore, and a group of homeowners. It is not yet known whether court review of the decision will be pursued by the U.S. Department of the Interior or others. See details in “Wellfleet Backs Decision for Disputed Building Permit”, D. Fraser, Cape Cod Times, June 27, 2008, and “Zoning Board Upholds Trophy House Plan”, M. Miller, Wicked Local: Wellfleet, June 28, 2008.
July 8th, 2008 at 11:45 am
We are living with the effects of flawed policies of previous administrations of the National Seashore and failure of earlier Wellfleet Selectmen to address zoning issues. All of us lived for years with misinformation by the National Seashore on their authority to promulgate zoning regulations within the Seashore boundaries. Because of this misinformation the towns in the Seashore did not address for many years the zoning issues which were actually in their sphere of authority. Unfortunately, Wellfleet failed to address the zoning issues on a timely basis even after the National Seashore acknowledged that they did not have the zoning authority they had previously claimed. For example, I believe Eastham has had an architectural review board in place for several years.
— Herb Gstalder, President, GUPACA