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Committee will ask DOT whether state offers circumferential parcels to abutters first
Summary
Members agreed to check DOT’s sale rules after Alon Kessler said he believed DOT markets assemblage parcels to adjoining owners first; the committee will request DOT documents and invite a DOT representative back to answer questions about sale mechanics and timelines.
Committee members and members of the public discussed how the state will market and sell former circumferential-highway parcels and whether the DOT uses an "assemblage" process that offers adjoining property owners priority to purchase. Alon Kessler said he believed the DOT markets to abutters first and said he had a DOT letter from Eric Sargent; the committee said it would verify that treatment.
"I think they market it to the abutters first because they use assemblage value," Kessler said when describing how the state might price and offer parcels. Committee members said they had not seen that specific language in the presentation materials and agreed to call DOT to clarify whether abutters have a right of first offer, whether parcels are involuntarily merged, and what approvals (governor and council) are required to begin a sale. The group asked the chair to compile questions and report back; members suggested inviting the DOT presenter—identified in the transcript as Eric Sargent or Ben Sargent—back for an October meeting to answer detailed questions.
