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Open space committee seeks conservation-restriction expiration dates, confirms Chapter 61 monitoring
Summary
Committee members reviewed the town’s properties lists for conservation monitoring, reported an up-to-date Chapter 61 list and asked the new town assessor for conservation-restriction expiration dates that currently exist only in paper files.
The Town of Lakeville Open Space Committee reviewed its property-monitoring lists and identified a gap: expiration dates for the town’s conservation restrictions are not available in the assessor’s digital database and must be located in paper files.
Chairman David Zolonis and committee members said they have the most recent Chapter 61 list and an up-to-date inventory of town- and state-owned properties over five acres. The committee confirmed the Chapter 61 list will stay part of its annual monitoring work.
The nut graf: The committee met with Robbie, the town’s new assessor, and asked the assessor to help compile expiration dates for conservation restrictions. Committee members said those dates appear to be stored in paper records and will require a manual lookup. If the assessor’s office cannot provide the information, committee members discussed recruiting volunteers to extract expiration dates from paper files by parcel ID.
Committee discussion covered three primary property lists: the Chapter 61 parcels, conservation restrictions, and town/state-owned properties. Members said the Chapter 61 list is current and that the town-owned and state-owned property list is available in PDF format and considered adequate for their monitoring use. The conservation-restriction list, however, lacks expiration dates in the assessor’s digital records; members said retrieval will likely be manual.
The committee also reviewed properties larger than five acres and said those inventories are complete. Members discussed practical next steps: the chair will follow up with the assessor to determine whether the office can extract expiration dates; if not, the committee will recruit volunteers to perform a manual search of records by parcel ID. The committee flagged the conservation-restriction expiration dates as the primary outstanding action on the properties list.
Ending: The chair said he will meet the assessor later in the month to determine whether the assessor’s office can provide expiration dates; if not, the committee will consider volunteer help to complete the inventory.
