Welcome to nantucket together!
preserving traditional nantucket vacation rentals and BeING GOOD NEIGHBORS
Let's make our community a better place TOGETHER!
We represent all residents of & visitors to our island.
Let's make our community a better place TOGETHER!
We represent all residents of & visitors to our island.
"Nantucket Together" is a grassroots citizens group of Nantucket homeowners with strong ties to the island, who are focused on the preservation of traditional vacation rentals and support for the local economy.
We believe proposals to significantly curtail the lodging visitng families prefer, will have a profound impact on Nantucket's economy, its tax revenue, and the property rights of all residents. Legislating far-reaching changes without a factual understanding of the impact is reckless.
We are a 100% volunteer non-profit that does not accept donations from corporations or investor-only short term rental operators.
William M.
By-law Purposes and Intents:
The Select Board approved warrant includes 4 STR related articles.
The zoning article (59) will require a 2/3 vote to pass and the 3 general bylaw articles have been combined, through consensus by the sponsors, into a single compromise bylaw, Article 60
Use the link below to read the proposed STR related bylaws which begin on page 87.
Make up your own mind about newly proposed Citizens Warrant Short Term Rental Proposals. Read the facts and analysis regarding Nantucket vacation rental data produced by independent data aggregators working for the town and the Nantucket Association of Real Estate Brokers (NAREB) as well as local and national short-term rental information and trends here.
The Nantucket Association of Real Estate Brokers (NAREB) commissioned an independent study by the UMass Amherst Donahue Institute of vacation rentals that are managed by local real estate agencies. NAREB collected rental data from participating agencies for the period of 2019-2022, removed duplications and personal information and turned it over to the Donahue Institute for analysis and they published their report in June 2023.
ProcessFirst was selected by the town to delve into online rental platform, MA State STR registry, home sales data and combine it/ compare it to the extent possible with similar data being independently aggregated by the Nantucket Association of Real Estate Brokers (NAREB), removing duplicates and protecting personal information.
Ferry and airplane cancelations are a common occurence with which most of us are familiar but sometimes we have no back-up plan. It doesn't happen often but sometimes visitors to the island for a day-trip are stranded, wedding attendees cannot return to the mainland as planned. If it is off-season, traditional lodging is very limited and during the summer, just unavailable.
Weather and other emergencies may also strike year round residents whose pipes burst and/or have no heat during winter power outages, or flooding may have rendered their home termporarily unsafe.
Many of us who are blessed with a home on Nantucket, are prepared to open our home, a room or rooms in our home to help our neighbors and visitors, for free, for a cleaning fee or a reduced rate in situations like these.
nWe are still getting organized and hope to offer our website and Facebook Pages as a clearinghouse for assistance requests. We have volunteers to connect visitors/travelers with homeowners and a list of available homes. We would love to add yours - please navigate to our Emergency Lodging page on this website.
….but what does ‘No’ really mean? There were yard signs posted around town that asked voters to Vote No on 1 & 2 to STOP UNLIMITED ISLANDWIDE SHORT TERM RENTALS (how does preserving the status quo accomplish that exactly? by leaving the door open to the accessory use zoning that has failed to pass three times at town meeting?. There were FINCOM amendments to the Select Board amendments to what the STRWG submitted. Some wanted stricter regulations and others believed none were required. Confusion reigned and simplicity begged for a place at the table. The conversation will continue.
We need to prevent future corporate owned STRs and explicitly legalize the operation of existing and future non-corporate STRs across the island.
So we support a Plan B and are following the progress on the scheduled rulings on the STR LAWSUITS at Nantucket District Court and the citizens articles proposed by Attorney Steve Cohen (see next story).
That's why we need YOUR continued participation in the conversation.
Your contribution will enable us to support our community and continue to share information and build forums for feedback and for creating solutions.
Whether you live on the island year-round, only frequent your ACK home for vacations and events or have a family investment property, you are one of us.
Even if you are a tax-paying non-voting member of the community, we represent you. Join us with your voice.
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"ACK Now has not taken into account the unique neighborhoods and homes on the Island. It is dividing the full and part time residents even more, something that is a problem because part time residents contribute so much to the economy and fabric of the Island. The regulations they propose solve no affordable housing issues..."
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