No bidders met the reserve price this month for Donald Lee's shorefront property, which the state ordered the Sheriff to sell after the Massachusetts resident repeatedly failed to comply with a court order to pay for the environmental damage he caused to Bradford Cove. A second auction date will be set, but in the interim the Ossipee Bluffs Association will have to cover the $500,00 to $600,000 remediation cost.
At its regular Tuesday night meeting, the ZBA voted that State Superior Court is the proper body to review claims that Ossipee's Planning Board violated town zoning when it granted conditional approval for the campground to double in size. The Town of Freedom and Effingham Conservation Commission had filed the appeal.
Was it murder or an accident? Traveling salesman Frederick Small said he was out of town when his Ossipee Lake home burned to the ground in September, 1916, killing his wife, Florence. Not so, said authorities, whose prosecution of Small kept New England in suspense for months. The definitive book about the Small case has now been reissued.
In a letter to the Carroll County Independent, the co-founder and former president of the Long Sands Association property owners group questions why the Ossipee Planning Board would deny the Town of Freedom's request for more time to present its concerns about the proposed expansion of Westward Shores Campground.
Commission cites potential violations of Ossipee's zoning laws in regard to the development on the floodplain, including septic system construction.
The lake level is starting to fall. Work continues on local roadways. Lots of pine needles, but where are the cones?
Granted abutter status in the matter, the Town of Freedom says Ossipee's Planning Board should not have approved the application because the plan violated Ossipee's zoning ordinance. The appeal asks the Ossipee ZBA to conduct a hearing to review the Planning Board's decision.
Ossipee's Planning Board has denied Freedom's request to reconsider its conditional approval for a developer to double the capacity of Westward Shores Campground & Marina. But as the expansion application moves to Concord for review, flooding remains a key consideration.
Granted abutter status because the expansion has regional impact, Freedom’s leaders say they want to present testimony about the potential negative impact on water quality. On September 20, the Ossipee Planning Board granted conditional approval for the expansion after denying Freedom’s request for more time to study a newly submitted engineering report by Jones & Beach, and revised plans that were presented that night with no opportunity for public review.
On a 5-2 vote, Ossipee's Planning Board says the campground can double in size if it meets state and federal regulations. To address flooding concerns, RVs will be raised on blocks and tied down. Freedom's Planning Board, granted abutter status, asks for more more time to review the Jones & Beach technical report and is turned down.
This has been a good summer, with no big changes to write about.
The Marist Brothers organization is asking the court to agree with their position that they are exempt from property taxation based on their non-profit status and charitable status. The Town of Effingham says the camp's purposes are unduly broad, its programs are not sufficiently different from those offered by for-profit youth camps, and the volume of scholarships provided to families in need is "unremarkable."
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