Dartmouth Conservation Commission Dismisses Horseneck Road Home Bid, Approves Pier

DARTMOUTH -- April 14, 2026, Dartmouth Conservation Commission rejects a third continuance bid for a contested Horseneck Road home project, dismissing it without prejudice. The commission voted 0-5 to deny the continuance and 5-0 to dismiss DEP File 15-2814, filed by a Zenith-represented applicant proposing a single-family home within buffer zones to a Coastal Bank, Salt Marsh, and the Slocums River Riverfront Area, after Conservation Agent Eduardo Fortes reported the underlying ownership dispute had moved to court with no resolution timeline. Chair Michael Kehoe said the commission would not "keep a matter open indefinitely while parties sort out what they should have gotten sorted out before they filed." The same meeting saw a Standard Order of Conditions issued for a residential pier at 600 Potomska Road, requiring a $1,000 payment to the town's shellfish propagation fund and a November-through-March construction blackout, and a second order for a riprap seawall repair at 57 Naushon Avenue along Buzzards Bay. An after-the-fact filing by the owner of Prestige Car Wash at 271 State Road was continued to May 12 after staff found the restoration plan failed to delineate the full buffer zone or account for the extent of clearing along the northern portion of the site.