{"id":1952,"date":"2015-04-14T21:12:56","date_gmt":"2015-04-14T21:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jpfco.com\/dir\/?p=1607"},"modified":"2015-04-14T21:12:56","modified_gmt":"2015-04-14T21:12:56","slug":"you-can-have-your-cake-but-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jpfco.com\/dir\/you-can-have-your-cake-but-2\/","title":{"rendered":"You Can Have Your Cake, But&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Town Meeting this year lasted three nights &#8211; about 4.5 hours each of the first two nights and then 2 hours the final night.  Although I love this form of government and decision making, it is not perfect.  For instance, for an active family, it is hard to go to a meeting from 6 to 10:30pm two to three nights in a row and basically put life on the back burner.  The people that can do that are disproportionately retired people that are older than 60 (I have nothing against that and very much enjoy being part of the group).  So, a conundrum happens.  Does a 35 yo with two young children who is trying to get established have the same outlook on Town issues as a 60 yo emptynester?  Sometimes yes, but many times no.  Therefore, some of the decisions made are not always the best decisions for the younger generations.  In my opinion, this became apparent with the outcome of basically all of the zoning articles.  In 2009, we (residents of TON) voted to put a master zoning plan in place.  It called for upzoning (less density) in certain places and downzoning (more density) in other places.  Up until this Town Meeting, most of the zoning articles have been upzoning articles, which passed.  This Town Meeting, there were downzoning articles, which basically all were defeated.  The issue is, younger generations need more density to be able to afford to buy (break out the Econ. 101 book to verify).  I&#8217;m not about Nantucket being developed everywhere, but I do think the Planning Board staff does an amazing job and we should follow their lead.  Anyone seen my cake&#8230;     <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpfco.com\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Screen-Shot-2015-04-15-at-9.25.34-AM-e1429104456105.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jpfco.com\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Screen-Shot-2015-04-15-at-9.25.34-AM-300x216.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-04-15 at 9.25.34 AM\" width=\"300\" height=\"216\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1614\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Town Meeting this year lasted three nights &#8211; about 4.5 hours each of the first two nights and then 2 hours the final night. Although&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jpfco.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jpfco.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jpfco.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jpfco.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jpfco.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jpfco.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jpfco.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jpfco.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jpfco.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}