HDC Approves 126 Main Street Driveway, 4-1

Other Committee · Meeting of October 20, 2026

Nantucket's Historic District Commission voted 4-1 to approve a reworked driveway at 126 Main Street, ending a yearslong dispute with neighbors. The commission backed a 20-foot cobblestone driveway with a brick landing and a boxwood hedge, shifted away from the house, over the objection of Commissioner Joe Paul, who argued the project should stay all brick to match the original 2022 approval. Abutter Kevin Toast of 128 Main Street told the board "we have had almost every single commissioner speak on this, and no one supports this." The same meeting saw the commission unanimously hold large new houses proposed at 2 Wingspread Lane and 17 Hooper Farm Road for further revisions over scale, density and screening concerns, while approving a third-round redesign at 19R Hooper Farm Road conditioned on a cypress hedge capped at 15 feet.

In the full story:

• Agenda and Commissioner Comments
• 2 Howard Street
• 20 Canterbury Lane
• 50 Walsh Street
• 39 Orange Street
• 2 Wingspread Lane
• 19R Hooper Farm Road
• 3 C Street
• Derry Lane
• 2 Stone Alley
• 126 Main Street
• 17 Hooper Farm Road
• Who Was There
• Organizations And Documents Referenced
• The complete report: 3,916 words

Source: the Other Committee meeting of October 20, 2026, reported from the official video recording and transcript.

Checked against the record: before publication this article was automatically compared with the meeting transcript. It was corrected where it differed.