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Planning board continues Trask Lane covenant release request to July 22, 2025
Summary
Attorney Miranda Samasco told the Danvers Planning Board the applicant is engaged in continuing discussions with Beverly and in permitting and asked to continue the request for full release of an August 1972 covenant. The board voted to continue the item to its July 22, 2025 meeting.
The Town of Danvers Planning Board on May 13 continued consideration of a request to release a covenant associated with a 1972 definitive subdivision plan affecting Trask Lane to its July 22, 2025 meeting at the applicant’s request.
Attorney Miranda Samasco, representing the applicant, said the team had amended a prior request for a partial release to a request for full release but remains engaged in ongoing discussions with town counsel and in parallel permitting steps, including a Massachusetts Interagency Permitting Access (MIPA) process. Samasco asked the board to continue the matter to a date certain while acknowledging the applicant might request further time: “We are still sort of knee deep in our permitting for the Beverly planning board…we are suggesting that the board’s meeting in July would be an appropriate date to continue to,” Samasco said.
The board’s clerk moved to continue the Trask Lane full-release request to the July 22, 2025 meeting. A second was recorded and the motion passed unanimously with all participating members voting in favor.
Why it matters: the item involves release of a covenant established Aug. 28, 1972, tied to a recorded definitive subdivision plan for access to Folly Hill development. Release of a covenant typically requires coordination with legal counsel and any affected municipalities or property owners; the applicant reported parallel permitting in Beverly could affect the outcome.
Additional context provided at the meeting: Samasco told the board she and the applicant had discussed opening County Way in Beverly as access but said the city stated it would not open that access; she did not speak for Beverly’s mayor. The applicant advised that the MIPA process was expected to wrap up in June or early July.
Next steps: the board continued the matter to its July 22, 2025 meeting; Samasco and the applicant may seek additional continuances if needed. The board recorded the continuance motion and will place the item on the July 22 agenda for further action.
Ending: The continuance preserves the board’s opportunity to review any updated legal or permitting information that may affect whether the covenant can be fully released.
