Danvers Select Board: votes on street takings, utility easements, licenses and event sponsorship

The Town of Danvers Select Board met Aug. 12 and approved a series of motions covering street takings, utility easements, license changes and event approvals.

The board voted to take, by order of taking, fee simple title to streets that town meeting had earlier accepted as public ways: Chatham Lane, Colontoni Drive (listed as Colony Drive in some materials), Crane Street, Franklin Street, Hunt Street and Wildwood Road. Town engineer Steven King described the action as the final administrative step to record those ways at the registry of deeds after town meeting acceptance; the board approved the order of taking on a voice vote.

The board also accepted two utility easements presented by King. The first grants the town a 400-square-foot sewer easement overlaying an existing 20-foot water easement at 348 Andover Street so the parcel can be served by town sewer; the second accepts a water easement over an existing sewer easement at 13 Forest Street to allow a new water service to a proposed dwelling. In both cases the easement documents were described as grants from the property owner to the town and the board voted to accept them.

On a separate public hearing, the board approved an extension allowing Wakefield Associates (project manager Tim Spencer) to occupy the public way to continue construction at 17 Elm Street, with…