“You Might Be Able to Get A Loft”

On 20 August 2010, the Dennis Town Planner held a public meeting of interested Dennisport cottage owners to review the latest draft of his proposed Seasonal Resort Community By-law. This is a partial (but literal) transcript and excerpt [55:43-57:11] from the archived Town video of that meeting.

“I don’t think anyone here is looking to (pause) tear down all the cottages that are there and replace them with story-and-a-half y’know nine hundred-square-foot footprint-type structures, but (pause) there are some areas that y’know the structures are way off away from the water and it may not be a bad idea to allow y’know some of the larger families perhaps to be able to do something with those uh parts of the site and then there are the other areas that you get up on the water side of uh Chase’s Ocean Grove where (in my walks through there) uh I’ve walked through there a lot last winter uh to be honest I really see that you could sit down at the kitchen table in one cottage and drink a cup of coffee on the kitchen table in the cottage next door. It probably a lot of you can’t do anything to take advantage of this zoning anyway uh but uh you might be able to get a loft uh in the upper area where you could sleep a couple of kids or something, but that y’know you’ve got some height restraints in some areas you’ve got some areas that uh perhaps an old cottage that’s way in the back might be able to be reinvested in and then uh they can split a larger portion of the wastewater bills, or something to that effect.”