Westport Annual Town Meeting voters, on May 7, will have a chance to make some considerable changes in town, including a zoning bylaw change that would make Airbnb rentals legal, and a scaled-down water/sewer extension project.

While Westport voters decided against a $35,000,000 debt exclusion that would have funded a large water/sewer extension spanning Rte. 6, a set of articles and motions relative to the project will still be presented as planned. However, officials will seek to modify the amount on Town Meeting floor down to $8 million, according to Infratructure Oversight Committee member Bob Daylor.

"The Infrastructure Oversight Committee plans to ask the Town Meeting to amend the motion to reduce it to $8 million which is the estimated cost for the first section alone," Daylor said in a warrant review video posted to the town's official YouTube channel. "That would allow the critical first piece of connection to Fall River to happen and to build it roughly to the Route 88 area. Really, the commercial heart in the northwest would now have water and sewer."

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