April 5 - Town of Falmouth

value areas. In fact, Jeff Whitney, who was the Chairman of the Planning
Board in 1959, when that amendment was written that explicitly prohibited
two houses on one lot, he had four principal houses on his house at 43
Church Street, and I don’t think Jeff Whitney thought that they were illegal.
So, I would urge you to pass the Planning Board’s and Zoning
Board of Appeals’ recommendations because the overwhelming majority of
the circumstances when I’ve run into this have been on Penzance, on
Quissett Avenue, and only occasionally in the historical sections of the
villages and I do not think that the speculative impacts of
condominiumizing these units will ever happen. Thank you.
Wilber?
THE MODERATOR: Something new, Mr. Wilber? Mr.
MR. WILBER: Judge Wilber, Precinct 8. I have some
ambivalence about this bill. I was inclined to support it initially, but I
respect Mr. DeWitt’s experience and opinions on this a great deal. He
obviously is the person that is most knowledgeable about the process.
I am inclined to support it for one reason. This is another one
of these top-down decisions imposed on a Town that takes away more of
our rights of self-governance. We’ve had unfunded mandates come down
from the state. We’ve had the anti-snob zoning bylaw with the 40B snafus.
These are all taking away from our primary right to self-govern. And this
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