Talk about your stuck up snobs. One would think these wealthy elitists would love to have their pinons right nearby to bid on their beck and call, but alas - they do not want them in sight. I guess it ruins their views.
About a year ago, the Nantucket Land Bank, a public agency that owns a golf course, proposed building a dormitory for its seasonal employees who help keep the club running. The dorm is needed to address the island’s housing crisis, which has made it so hard to find affordable apartments that some workers have been sleeping on basement floors or in old shipping containers.
A few neighbors were aghast. Most vocal in opposition has been David Long, the CEO of Liberty Mutual, who owns a stately, cedar-shingled home across the street, a 5,700-square-foot chateau he calls “Summer Wind.”
In one of several letters sent over the past year to Matthew Beaton, the state’s secretary of energy and environmental affairs, he insists any state approval of the dorm would set “a bad precedent.”
“The construction . . . is entirely at odds with ‘the interest of conservation, “The project bears no relationship to the Land Bank’s mission or its expertise.”
The Land Bank was established by the Legislature in 1983 to acquire and preserve the island’s valuable undeveloped land. In the past, the state has generally approved the commissioners’ projects swiftly, including the expansion of the golf course from nine to 18 holes and the construction of a 16-acre ballfield complex elsewhere on the island, Land Bank officials said.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2018/05/16/nantucket-wealthy-residents-oppose-housing-for-seasonal-employees/pqDbEUkjSFf2QBaN3K8KlL/story.html?s_campaign=bdc:article:stub
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