Planning Board to Discuss House Size in R1 & R2 Districts with Public on January 30
A public discussion on house size and possible approaches to limiting it will take place on Saturday, January 30, 2010, with presentations by Planning Board members, starting at 9:00 a.m. at the Senior Center.
The Board discussed site coverage rules, including Site Plan Review, at its January 6 meeting.
Wellfleet residents are concerned about preserving the character of the town and its not becoming like the Hamptons, whose changes were recently described by writer Mark Helprin:
“Mere multimillionaires cannot afford anymore to go where within living memory actual people made a living from the farms, clam beds, and sword-fishing grounds. Now the potato fields are covered with houses that look like the headquarters of Martian expeditionary forces, ice-cream factories, vacuum cleaners on stilts, the Seagram building on its side, or shingled New England cottages monstrously swollen into something you might see after eating a magic mushroom. In simple and quiet towns that once deferred to the majesty of the ocean, the streets are now clogged with a kabuki theater of Range Rovers and $35,000 handbags.” “A Non-Delirious New York”, The Wall Street Journal, January 22, 2010.