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Selectboard begins Railroad Circle discontinuance process and grants public-works waiver for developer
Summary
The board voted to start the statutory process to discontinue a roughly 70-foot section of Railroad Circle (wetland buffer area) and granted a waiver from turnaround specs to permit a two-lot subdivision design that would revert discontinued land to adjacent owners.
Representatives for a proposed two-lot subdivision sought selectboard support to begin the statutory discontinuance of a short, unused section of Railroad Circle and to grant a waiver from the town's public-works turnaround specifications to allow an alternate hammerhead/turnaround design. The presenter explained the segment is wetland-impacted, not maintained or plowed, and that discontinuance would revert red-shaded land back to the town and green-shaded land to an adjacent owner.
Board members asked about development implications, hammerhead alternatives, right-of-way widths, and a required on-site warned meeting and a 60-day filing process following a board decision. The board voted to begin the discontinuance process and separately granted the requested waiver for the turnaround design by voice votes. The board and consultant agreed to an on-site visit to be publicly warned per statute prior to finalizing the discontinuance.
Provenance: topic begins with the consultant's presentation of map and statutory steps and ends with the motion and two voice votes to begin the discontinuance process and to grant the waiver.
