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Needham officials move to buy 10 acres on Cartwright Road for conservation
Summary
The conservation commission voted Feb. 26 to recommend using $500,000 from the town’s conservation fund and to ask town meeting for a $300,000 Community Preservation Act appropriation to complete an $800,000 purchase of about 10 acres adjacent to Ridge Hill.
The Needham Conservation Commission voted Feb. 26 to advance the town’s planned purchase of roughly 10 acres on Cartwright Road, a parcel the town manager said would expand the Ridge Hill reservation.
Town Manager Katie King told the commission a purchase-and-sale agreement signed by the select board sets the price at $800,000 and that the planned funding package would combine $500,000 from the conservation fund with a $300,000 request to the Community Preservation Committee, subject to town meeting approval. “Of the $800,000, $500,000 is to be spent…based on your approval…
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