Shape the Future of Wellfleet Housing!
Sent November 12, 2024
Maurice's Campground Community Meeting #2
Help us guide future housing development!
The Town of Wellfleet is hosting the second community meeting on the
proposed housing options for Maurice’s Campground, and all community members are
encouraged to attend. The meeting will allow the public to engage with the evolving plans for the Maurice’s
Campground housing project. Participants will be able to:
Hear what we learned from the summer and fall community engagement sessions.
Explore how community input has been incorporated into various land use scheme ideas.
Weigh the pros and cons of different housing plan options.
Help select a preferred plan option to guide development requests for proposals (RFPs).
This is a unique opportunity for the community to directly influence the future of
Maurice’s Campground and contribute to addressing affordable housing needs in
Wellfleet. The public’s voice is crucial as we move toward finalizing a plan that reflects
our shared values and vision for the town.
Wellfleet Town Officials and project planners strongly encourage residents, business
owners, and all stakeholders to attend and provide feedback that will help shape the
future of this important development.
Maurice's Campground Community Meeting #1 Recap
On August 21st, Maurice’s Campground Planning Committee met to review feedback from their first community meeting. Key suggestions included improving walking, biking, and transit access, building a bus shelter, and connecting to local amenities like grocery stores and health care. There was strong emphasis on creating a safe crossing over Route 6.
The meeting also focused on the need for diverse housing options, including workforce housing for middle-income employees, seasonal workers, and shellfishing families. Gail Sullivan, the Principal, emphasized the opportunity Maurice’s Campground offers to address multiple housing and community goals, including homeownership, rentals, and other amenities like a community center.
The consultants provided an overview for an approach to land use planning, funding, and sustainability along Route 6. Consultants will then draft a summary of community feedback, data collection, and continue land use planning. Interviews with town officials and housing advocates are planned, with the second community meeting set for November 20th. Watch the meeting here.
Introduction Presentation
Click here to watch the Introduction Presentation, from the August 1st Community Meeting.
Summary of Insights
Click here to watch the Summary of Findings, from the August 1st Community Meeting.
Groundbreaking Ceremony For Residences at Lawrence Hill
State and local officials gathered for a groundbreaking ceremony Oct 30 at The Residences at Lawrence Hill, a new affordable housing community featuring 46 affordable, sustainably designed rental housing units located on Lawrence Road in Wellfleet. The new development will provide low- and moderate-income families access to new, permanent, stable, year-round affordable housing. The Residences at Lawrence Hill was developed through a partnership between the nonprofit organizations the Community Development Partnership (CDP) and Preservation of Affordable Housing (POAH) in collaboration with Studio G Architects. For further reading, click here.
After 11 Years, Construction Begins on 4 Habitat Homes
On Saturday, November 2nd, Habitat for Humanity of Cape Cod welcomed the community, volunteers and the future homeowners of four affordable houses to be built by on Old Kings Highway for a wall-raising ceremony. For the next year, the four families who were selected for the project will each contribute at least 250 hours of labor to the construction as part of Habitat for Humanity’s “sweat equity” requirement for future homeowners.
The winning families were selected by lottery after completing a 22-page application and a rigorous interview process. To target the most at-risk residents, Habitat requires that applicants make under 80 percent of Barnstable County’s area median income, which is $81,050 for a two-person household. Two of the four households make below 60 percent, which is $60,810 for two people.
For more, read the Provincetown Independent article by Parker Mumford here.