Town Meeting voters will be asked to decide eleven articles proposing amendments to the Provincetown Zoning By-laws. Beginning with Article 8, voters are asked to remove the need for applicants, within the commercial zone, to seek a special permit required for entertainment service of food and service of alcohol beverages from the Zoning Board of Appeals. The Licensing Board would handle issues related to this type of special use permit. Currently, both regulatory boards require similar approval. This article would streamline the approval process. In an unrelated matter, Article 8 also creates two new permitted principal uses 1) theater and playhouse and 2) arcade that will be listed in section 1240 as an accessory use, Entertainment added to section 1250. The zoning by-laws had not recognized these specific uses before.

In Article 9, Town Meeting voters are asked to amend Article V of the zoning by-laws by further defining the word Structure to include retaining walls that hold more than four feet of unbalanced soil and to redefine palletized patios so as not to be included in this definition. Article 10 redefines Guest Unit to include "cabin" along with motel, hotel, inn, and other rental facilities.

Approval of Article 11 would allow the Planning Board to have 30 additional days to review site plans. Given the amount of time available for a volunteer regulatory board, the current review period is insufficient for public notification and to adequately address the community and environmental issues related to site plans.

There are four zoning articles concerning the Building Scale by-law. Article 12 seeks to eliminate the current by-law in its entirety. The Planning Board sponsored Article 13 would amend the Building Scale by-law by making the Principal Assessor responsible for determining the calculations. This article further removes stand-alone accessory use structure such as sheds and small garages from being included in the Building Scale calculation. The Board of Selectmen (Article 14) proposes to modify the Building Scale by-law by giving the Zoning Board of Appeals the flexibility to deviate from the by-law so long as the proposal meets the objectives of the Provincetown Local Comprehensive Plan . Finally, Article 15 would set critieria to guide the Zoning Board of Appeals to deviate from the by-law for properties that may potentially be subdivided into smaller parcels.

The three remaining Zoning related articles ask voters to amend the Growth Management By-law. If approved, the Growth Management By-law amendments would define the meaning of "Cabin" and "Camp" (Article 16); make the time-frame for issuing Growth Management Permits more flexible; and define criteria for annual evaluation of the Growth Management By-law to include affects on potable water supply, solid waste disposal and wastewater disposal.