Truro’s current development path is too big and too expensive. We must honor the 2024 Walsh housing caps and build the housing Truro needs, pause large-scale and overpriced capital projects, and protect our water and natural resources. Say YES to calling on the Select Board and Town officials to protect Truro’s people, pocketbooks, natural resources, and rural character. My signature says YES to the Truro we love, respect, and want to grow responsibly.

Why This Matters

In November 2023, Truro voters took part in the largest voter turnout for a Truro Town Meeting ever - more than 700 showed up – and changed the direction of Truro for the better. We can finally accomplish what we voted to support in 2023-24 but ONLY if we tell the Select Board now to change course AND if we turn out in high numbers this year.

For the first time ever, this year’s budget will be over $30 million. The proposed DPW is slated for a $29M total project cost with debt service taking us to over $52M – and that is just the start. The Town also has new capital projects in the pipeline. These excessive capital projects and overlay-driven zoning changes also push our small town quickly toward suburban-level density at Walsh and in North Truro.

Truro cannot sustain this level of spending on the backs of only 3,000+ taxpaying households and small businesses.

Truro is on a fast track to become less affordable, not more affordable. If we do not put the brakes on now, the rising debt and taxes, overly-large and unneeded infrastructure, and high-density residential development will permanently harm Truro’s character and health.

Truro can meet Truro’s housing needs responsibly— with up to 160 new units at Walsh, plus the 43 at Cloverleaf coming online soon, and an estimated 30 or more at smaller sites. We support housing that serves Truro residents but cannot absorb the many costs of regional, statewide or national housing demands.

Water first. Truro is also the last source of clean drinking water for both Truro and Provincetown. Protecting our water requires limiting growth - not stopping it - and safeguarding critical areas such as the Walsh Water Protection Area and Truro watersheds. This is a necessity for all life in Truro - not a slogan.

We must move housing, water protection and cost controls forward ASAP with smart planning and at the same time end overdevelopment and overspending to protect what makes Truro unique: our natural beauty, our still pristine water, and our sustainable scale as a small community. We choose a rural Truro that takes care of its people, water, land and air - for ourselves, our children, our local businesses, our future, and our neighboring towns that rely on this.

Truro is a community — not a commodity. Let's end overspending and overdevelopment in Truro now.

Say YES to the Truro we love, respect, and want to grow responsibly. Please sign this petition. Thank you.