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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2025-04-28 Select Board Packet Town of Reading Meeting Posting with Agenda 2018-07-16LAG Board -Committee -Commission -Council: Select Board Date: 2025-04-28Time: 6:45PM Building: School - Memorial HighLocation: Performing Arts Center Address: 62 Oakland RoadAgenda: Purpose:General Business Meeting Called By:Jacquelyn LaVerdeon behalf of Chair Chris Haley Notices and agendas are to be posted 48 hours in advance of the meetings excluding operation and make necessary arrangements to be sure your posting is made in an adequate amount of time. A listing of topics that the chair reasonably anticipates will be discussed at the meeting must be on the agenda. All Meeting Postings must be submitted in typed format; handwritten notices will notbe accepted. Topics of Discussion: This meeting will be held in the Reading Memorial High School Performing Arts Center, before the stage to the right. Open session: Consideration and vote to declare a certain drainage easement located on Parcel 38-0000-0139.0 surplus ¤¯ pursuant to G.L. c. 40, §15A and authorize disposition of said easement or a portion thereof This Agenda has been prepared in advance and represents a listing of topics that the chair reasonably anticipates will be discussed at the meeting. However the agenda does not necessarily include all matters which may be taken up at this meeting. Page | 1 ARTICLE 17To see if the Town will vote pursuant to G.L. c. 40, § 15A to transfer a drainage easement located across a certain parcel of land identified on the Town of Reading Parcel 0.38.0-0000-0139.0, also known as Parcel B on a plan entitled Consulting Engineers and Land Surveyors, dated September 23, 1999 and recorded with the Middlesex South Registry of Deeds as Plan No. 1071 of 1999 in Book 30698, Page 578, to the Select Board for general municipal purposes, and to authorize the Select Board to partially release, relocate, or amend a Town-owned said drainage easement in a manner acceptable to the Town and in a form acceptable to Town Counsel, and to take such other and further actions or execute such other and further documents as may be necessary to effectuate the purposes of this article, or take any other action with respect thereto. Select Board The property is under development and the owner is requesting that a portion of the easement be abandoned as it creates a burden on the property. The existing easement was established for the potential extension of Colburn Road, which never was constructed. By eliminating a portion of the easement, the owner can construct a building which is further away from the wetland on site. The owner believes that by relocating the home further away from the wetland it will increase the value of the property and subsequent sale of the home. Since the road was never constructed the Town sees no reason to utilize the full easement in the future. No additional utilities are proposed to occupy this easement in the future. If approved the Town will release all rights, title, and interest to a portion of the easement as depicted in the plan below. Finance Committee Report: No Report. Bylaw Committee Report: No Report.