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Committee urges updates to encroachment policy; staff to coordinate hedgerow, sidewalk work and 1 Big Beach easement summaries
Summary
Town staff and committee members discussed revising the town encroachment policy to improve enforcement, arranging DPW hedge trimming in problem locations and assembling a GIS layer and summaries for "1 Big Beach" easements that allow limited public access.
Committee members and staff discussed several access and maintenance items on May 20, including the encroachment policy, sidewalk conditions, hedge- and sight-line trimming, and mapping of "1 Big Beach" easements.
Tracy McDonald said the town has an intern this summer who will help assemble a list of "1 Big Beach" easement locations and summarize each easement's exact pedestrian or use rights. "The 1 Big Beach easements are interesting . . . majority of the time, they do involve some type of pedestrian access, but then a lot of times they're not full beach access,"…
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