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Issue No. 32 — Our postmortem of Special Town Meeting at which an optional new zoning code for downtown Orleans was adopted, funding for a Fire-Rescue land acquisition was approved, and a more energy-efficient building code failed.
Doors open at 4 PM — a full two hours before the meeting begins. Town staff will be there to answer your questions about the Warrant.
Stuff to Help You:
* EXIT 89's Preview of Special Town Meeting
* A digital copy of the Warrant
* The Orleans Town website's
Apologies. We sent you down the wrong rabbit hole! Here's the correct link to the Special Town Meeting Warrant.
It has been corrected already in EXIT 89's online edition.
When is the meeting?
Monday, November 17, 6PM at the Nauset Regional Middle School gym.
If you
Issue No. 31 — preview of next week's Special Town Meeting on November 17 takes on a handful of complex articles addressing the housing crisis, downtown zoning, land for a new Fire-Rescue Station, the adoption of a stricter energy code, and CPC's funding of the Eldredge Park renovation.



