Conservation versus affordable housing, an uneasy alliance

Conservation versus affordable housing, an uneasy alliance

The long and meandering debate over Katama Meadows in Edgartown, and its earlier iteration as Meeting House Way, teaches us a lesson in how conservation and affordable housing may work together. The project has been before the Martha’s Vineyard Commission since 2017, when two developers from Utah, with little apparent connection to Island history, culture, and traditions, applied for a permit to build homes on a 54-acre wooded lot. The affair pr…