In Plymouth, cancellation of a Select Board meeting with the Planning Board last week is interesting. The Select Board invited the Planning Board to their March 30th meeting to discuss the Planning Board’s philosophy regarding covenants.
Bobbi Clark has more:
On a 3 to 1 vote, the Planning Board moved to change the terms of a covenant allowing Tom Wallace
of T & K Retail, LLC. to double the density from 3 parcels to 6 parcels, without conditions, on property on Bump Rock Road. So this caused concern about the 80 or so other covenants that exist.
Select Board Chair Ken Tavares:
“The Planning Board was invited by the Select Board to come in to discuss covenants and to do it in a very general environment because there were a number of questions that had been asked of the Board about a covenant. And we didn’t have the answers.”
But the meeting of the two Boards did not happen because of a letter to Chairman Tavares, received on the afternoon of the meeting, from Tom Wallace’s attorney, Jeff Angley, that states in part:
“…the Board of Selectmen’s request that the Planning Board—aquasi-judicial body with its own independent statutory jurisdiction—come before it and explain its Vote, without T & K or its counsel being invited, or provided formal notice, is concerning…”
Selectman Chair Tavares:
“The letter states that the meeting was going to take place to discuss the vote—that was never, never the intent of this Board to do it. We wanted to talk about covenants in general.”
In light of all this, Chairman Tavares cancelled the joint meeting.
