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Housing committee tables plan to declare 47 Hamlet Street parcel surplus amid questions over conditions and ADU implications
Summary
The committee heard a request to declare a roughly 4,900 sq. ft. parcel behind 47 Hamlet Street surplus for sale to the adjacent homeowner under the city's 'yard sale' program, but tabled the item after councilors sought clearer written conditions, ownership clarification and assurances about accessory-dwelling-unit rules.
Planning Director Daniel McCarter told the housing committee on Jan. 12 that the owner of 47 Hamlet Street had asked to acquire a 4,900-square-foot parcel directly behind the house and that the city had subdivided the piece from school-owned land so it could be transferred.
“We're asking for this property to be declared surplus for the purpose of a yard sale,” McCarter said, describing maps and subdivision plans in the meeting packet. Under the city’s yard-sale practice the parcel would ordinarily be sold to an adjacent owner at $1 per square foot, with conditions limiting use to green space, parking or other accessory…
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