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Officials update plan for relocated Sheep Pond access road; betterment assessments, permits and land conveyances remain to be completed
Summary
Town staff and experts briefed commissioners Jan. 29 on a proposed alternate access road behind Sheep Pond properties, erosion rates driving the project, permitting status and the process for betterment assessments; no formal action was taken.
Town officials presented an update Jan. 29 on a proposed relocated access road for the Sheep Pond area, describing accelerating coastal erosion, options for an unpaved private access road behind homes, outstanding permitting and multiple required real-estate transactions before construction can begin.
Jeff Carlson, the town’s natural resources director, said the Sheep Pond area is experiencing rapid coastal change and that monitoring stations installed since December recorded recent erosion “in some spots there of up to 3 to 5 feet in the last month.” He reviewed the site history, saying seven structures have been demolished or removed since the town began close monitoring in 2014 and that a number of cabins had been relocated inland.
Carlson and the project team said the proposed alignment would place the new roadway landward of…
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