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Belmont officials, residents urge exemption from Chapter 61B tax break for private country club
Summary
Residents and Belmont officials testified in favor of a home‑rule petition and H.3970 seeking to limit or exempt the town’s privately owned country club from the Chapter 61B recreational land preferential tax status, arguing the 134‑acre club occupies scarce developable land and pays a reduced assessment that shifts tax burden to residents; town
Belmont officials, residents and a town select‑board member urged the Joint Committee on Revenue to act on a home‑rule petition (filed as H.3970 in supporters’ testimony) asking the Legislature to remove or limit the Chapter 61B preferential tax treatment for the privately owned Belmont Country Club.
Residents said Belmont has limited developable acreage and that the country club’s 134‑acre property off Route 2 is the only private parcel in town claiming the Chapter 61B…
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