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Plaistow planning board conditionally approves lot-line adjustment amid deed dispute
Summary
The Plaistow Planning Board conditionally approved a lot-line adjustment between parcels at 238 and 244 Main Street while members and an objecting neighbor disagreed about an apparent discrepancy between deed acreage and a new survey.
The Plaistow Planning Board voted 4-0 to conditionally approve a lot-line adjustment that exchanges roughly 27,560 square feet between 238 Main Street (Tax Map 18 Lot 11) and 244 Main Street (Tax Map 18 Lot 10), while preserving a path for the deed discrepancy to be resolved before final recording.
The board's action followed a contested public comment from James Mosher, who said the plans submitted by the applicant show the applicant claiming “4 plus minus acres” of land on Mosher’s side of the boundary and asked that the application not be recorded until the deed and plans are reconciled. Mosher said in a prepared statement, “To move forward, the current application and recording of these erroneous plans without correction will will cause irreparable harm to me and my family.”
Why it matters: the town's review used a stamped, engineer-prepared survey to evaluate the lot-line adjustment; planning staff and board members emphasized…
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