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WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.210 --> 00:00:00.930 dennisdostert: So moved. 2 00:00:02.669 --> 00:00:03.240 Gary: Second, 3 00:00:04.080 --> 00:00:06.450 Gary: Any comments, questions additions. 4 00:00:08.970 --> 00:00:10.139 Gary: All in favor. 5 00:00:11.730 --> 00:00:12.000 Gary: Aye. 6 00:00:12.809 --> 00:00:13.049 Any 7 00:00:19.050 --> 00:00:20.580 Gary: Opposed Dennis's is that 8 00:00:20.850 --> 00:00:23.070 dennisdostert: No, no, I just, I saw somebody else, raise your hand. 9 00:00:23.460 --> 00:00:24.030 Okay. 10 00:00:26.970 --> 00:00:27.360 Gary: Okay. 11 00:00:28.050 --> 00:00:36.150 Gary: We're good. Everybody everybody's on public forum. I don't see anybody that's not a member. So we'll dispense with public forum. 12 00:00:37.980 --> 00:00:39.180 Gary: Property updates. 13 00:00:48.840 --> 00:00:53.970 Gary: Okay, I guess, Kevin. Should we take those. Now there's two small ones. 14 00:00:55.980 --> 00:01:00.240 Gary: The issue of high meadow and the issue of mulberry point, both of which are really 15 00:01:03.810 --> 00:01:08.670 Gary: The movement away sale or disposition 16 00:01:10.350 --> 00:01:10.980 Kevin Magee: Yeah, we can 17 00:01:12.900 --> 00:01:18.270 Gary: There's nothing particularly requiring Executive Session. 18 00:01:19.020 --> 00:01:23.250 Kevin Magee: No, no, there's not anybody civic properties. I was talking about Tom property, they're 19 00:01:23.580 --> 00:01:23.940 Gary: Like 20 00:01:24.330 --> 00:01:28.740 Kevin Magee: So I have, I'll take regarding to conservation easements when we finish that one. 21 00:01:29.010 --> 00:01:32.430 Gary: Okay, we've had two requests. 22 00:01:33.840 --> 00:01:35.520 Gary: One is a 23 00:01:36.720 --> 00:01:38.520 Gary: piece of land that's 50 feet. 24 00:01:38.580 --> 00:01:39.900 Gary: Wide and 25 00:01:39.930 --> 00:01:50.040 Gary: Kevin, I don't know if you've got the length of it. But the next 95 high meadow. It was a strip of land that the developer had reserved for road. 26 00:01:50.460 --> 00:02:00.390 Gary: presuming that he might be able to buy the next piece of land somebody else bought it. If this became a road and we go into somebody's backyard. So one of the neighboring 27 00:02:02.370 --> 00:02:05.700 Gary: People owners has requested that we would 28 00:02:08.130 --> 00:02:18.780 Gary: dispose of it. I've talked to Janice she sees no need for the town to keep it. We've done this before this happens from time to time that somebody 29 00:02:19.350 --> 00:02:29.790 Gary: Leaves a deeds to the town or road hoping that they get a chance to buy something. Next, it gets split 5050 down the middle, we 30 00:02:30.690 --> 00:02:51.420 Gary: Assuming it gets approved by the selectmen and then by a town meeting, it gets split 5052 the two owners, we give a quick claim that's their responsibility to do the whenever legal filing or surveys that they might require so it's no expense to 31 00:02:51.420 --> 00:02:51.720 sean cosgrove: What 32 00:02:52.230 --> 00:03:00.750 Gary: I've actually seen this property. It's a liability. There's two trees that if we don't get rid of it, Kevin's going to have to pay to take down and read, Kevin. 33 00:03:01.500 --> 00:03:03.630 Kevin Magee: Ghana trimming branches. I'm one of them already. 34 00:03:04.230 --> 00:03:16.440 Gary: Okay, but they, you know, in my opinion, their, their liabilities to the town. There's no benefit they go nowhere. So you might give them to the people and let them just take care of it. 35 00:03:17.910 --> 00:03:27.570 Carrie Clark: Gary, would this be a prime example of why or at least why we're trying not to take these on anymore and subdivision referrals and wetlands and Planning and Zoning 36 00:03:28.080 --> 00:03:28.770 Gary: Correct. 37 00:03:28.920 --> 00:03:30.990 Carrie Clark: To avoid situations. Okay. 38 00:03:31.050 --> 00:03:33.360 Gary: Well, I suspect, in this case, and I don't 39 00:03:35.310 --> 00:03:38.790 Gary: Kevin, do you know how is this like a 40 or 50 year old development. 40 00:03:39.480 --> 00:03:54.630 Kevin Magee: Yeah, this is like in this not open space piece. This is a piece of land reserved for a road to connect into a potential subdivision beyond it, but the southern region that got created and ended up with a cold. A second didn't go straight through. Right. 41 00:03:55.500 --> 00:03:58.620 Kevin Magee: Yeah, so it ended up this piece ended up not being needed now. 42 00:03:59.640 --> 00:04:10.710 Gary: But it gets deeded to the town. It happens from time to time. What happened in my neighborhood. A couple years back. And one of the people came. I was a selectman at the time. And somebody came to me and said, you know, 43 00:04:12.930 --> 00:04:16.170 Gary: I need five feet of this because I don't have enough 44 00:04:18.330 --> 00:04:32.100 Gary: Space to build and build myself a garage. I looked into it portly at the time said, you know, there's nothing we can do with it. There's nothing. There's no reason we want it. So we separated it off and they just took each took half of it. 45 00:04:32.700 --> 00:04:34.950 sean cosgrove: Gary, Gary, can you clarify where there's 46 00:04:36.300 --> 00:04:45.720 Gary: A nine time metal road it's between 95 high meadow and I'm not sure what the number is beside it. Kevin, do you know that 47 00:04:46.290 --> 00:04:49.200 Kevin Magee: I'll do, I'll try to pop on the screen here. Give me a second. 48 00:04:49.590 --> 00:04:51.810 sean cosgrove: Yeah, that'd be great. So swing. 49 00:04:54.540 --> 00:05:00.570 Gary: High meadow is off of prospect, which runs between 77 and State Street. 50 00:05:00.600 --> 00:05:01.530 sean cosgrove: Oh. Oh, good. 51 00:05:01.770 --> 00:05:02.580 sean cosgrove: Prospect hill. 52 00:05:03.270 --> 00:05:03.720 Yeah. 53 00:05:27.990 --> 00:05:28.530 Gary: Okay, yeah. 54 00:05:29.220 --> 00:05:29.550 Kevin Magee: It goes 55 00:05:29.730 --> 00:05:30.840 Kevin Magee: 230 feet. 56 00:05:32.160 --> 00:05:32.790 Kevin Magee: In life. 57 00:05:33.720 --> 00:05:38.910 Gary: Like 1.29 acres and 50 feet, y is 58 00:05:39.900 --> 00:05:42.030 Gary: 0938 yeah 59 00:05:42.570 --> 00:05:43.080 So, 60 00:05:44.130 --> 00:05:46.680 sean cosgrove: So who owns that land up 61 00:05:47.400 --> 00:05:48.360 Kevin Magee: The town. 62 00:05:49.200 --> 00:05:55.800 sean cosgrove: Okay, so the town just seeds into the the owners on the adjacent properties and they just split it. 63 00:05:55.830 --> 00:05:57.150 Gary: Wait, quick claim it 64 00:05:58.230 --> 00:06:11.070 Gary: And they they do what they need to do probably your merge it. I mean, they could keep it as a separate 25 foot space and do nothing with it. But typically, what would happen is they would merge it with their with their property. 65 00:06:11.280 --> 00:06:16.440 sean cosgrove: Okay, it is the town absorb the cost or to the owners. 66 00:06:16.560 --> 00:06:28.440 Gary: Joel All we will do is quit claim it so it's approved will click claim it to them and they can do whatever they want to do legally to file to get a survey. Okay. 67 00:06:28.470 --> 00:06:29.370 sean cosgrove: So, I mean, 68 00:06:29.430 --> 00:06:29.580 This 69 00:06:31.440 --> 00:06:31.980 sean cosgrove: One already 70 00:06:34.110 --> 00:06:34.440 Keith Bishop: Put it up. 71 00:06:36.600 --> 00:06:42.120 sean cosgrove: Oh no, but it's not it's not a developable i mean 72 00:06:43.980 --> 00:06:44.910 sean cosgrove: A lot so 73 00:06:45.000 --> 00:06:55.830 Gary: Neither is either developable nor nor would it make the Jason properties, you know, large enough to do anything, you know, put a separate a single lot and a second lot on it or anything like that.