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Planning board approves boundary line adjustment for Stone Bluff/ Murphy properties
Summary
The Plymouth Planning Board approved a boundary line adjustment transferring acreage between two lots owned by Stone Bluff Property Holdings (Mark and Melissa Murphy). The board found required septic and wetlands permits were in place and directed standard recording conditions.
The Plymouth Planning Board voted to approve a boundary line adjustment between two Stone Bluff Property Holdings parcels owned by Mark and Melissa Murphy.
The board found that the application included necessary approvals, including a five‑bedroom septic approval and a dredge‑and‑fill (wetlands) permit for roughly 4,865 square feet. Joseph, the planning staff member, summarized the application and noted staff had the relevant permit documents in the file. Bedford Design’s George Chadwick explained the adjustment: one lot (map 217, lot 17) would be reduced from about 35.3 acres to roughly 17.1 acres and the other (map 212, lot 3) would increase from about 11 acres to about 29.17 acres.
Chadwick also told the board that all proposed improvements and the approved home siting would be located in the agricultural/residential portions of the parcels and that the recorded plan — not tax maps — is the legal document for boundary lines.
Board members asked clarifying questions about stream‑front boundaries and how accretion or major avulsion events affect lot areas; Chadwick said legal boundaries follow the original centerline and that tax maps are not survey quality. The board accepted the application as complete, closed the public hearing and approved the adjustment with routine conditions requiring recordation of the approved plan.
The decision concludes the land‑use steps handled by the Planning Board; recording of the new lot lines with the registry remains the next procedural step.
