A request by Tamworth to be given special abutter status in the Route 16 development gets shut down by Ossipee. The developer's engineering firm sees irony in the neighboring town's concerns because Tamworth has no zoning laws and lacks a groundwater protection ordinance.
After mediation of a tax dispute between the Marist Brothers and the Town of Effingham broke down, the religious order took the town to court, where a judge ruled the camp flunked all four state tests to qualify for charitable tax exemption. More than $200,000 in back taxes is now at issue.
Ossipee Selectman Morgan may push for a new discussion at Town Meeting, Meanwhile, Dan Hole Watershed Trust will conduct the study on its own time and dime and post the results on its website.
Select Board hears from proponents of Dan Hole Watershed Trust's offer to fund and gift to the town a planning study rejected by voters last year, as well as those who don't want the study to be done no matter who pays for it. Board agrees to decide what to do at the next meeting. Article includes a link to the meeting video.
Board votes 4-2 to accept privately raised funds for a voter-rejected land planning study, then reverses itself on a 3-2 vote, with one abstention, to let the Select Board decide what to do.
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