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July 25, 2007
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ARTICLE 2
The replacement of the intersection of Hooper Farm Road, Pleasant Street and Sparks Avenue with a roundabout did not happen overnight. It required an intricate dance of town protocols and voter approvals that gave Nantucket, many believe, a smoother-flowing traffic junction.

Setting the stage were the easements the town secured from property owners for the rights of way needed to build the round- about. A byproduct of this process, however, is 570 square feet of land at 14A Sparks Ave., which is adjacent to Sheep to Shore at 14 Sparks Ave., that the town does not need. Unable to dispose of the property in 2005 when it got permission from voters to build the roundabout because the wrong square footage of the parcel was listed in the article written to sell the land, tomorrow's Article 1 clears up the disputed language.

The word "disposal" in the language of the article refers to putting the land up for

sale on the open market. I