Interesting meeting at the Kenny land this morning with Robin Kenny and her two potential buyers. We all walked the land, and it is a beautiful parcel, consisting of fields on either side of a spine of woods that runs North south down the middle, with woods at the edges as well. The houses are to be built in the woods at those edges.
They made a good case for the town not buying the land:
- 19+ acres of the 30 acre will be protected regardless, by conservation restrictions and subdivision covenants
- town residents will have access to the land via a right of way through the middle of the land, over the private road and trail connecting to the town’s adjoining 25 acre scout land that would be built
- the seven houses are sited in the woods, so the field views will not be distrubed
- property taxes to the town may well offset any education costs to the town, if the usual average of 1.5 school children per single family house rule holds
- town saves $1.4 m. if it does not exercise its right of first refusal
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