Anyone see the front page article on this in today's, Monday Nov 23 Laconia Daily Sun. South Down Shore has been building up a lawyer's fund to fight the WOW Trail from crossing its waterfront area. And, apparently back in 1983 when South Down Shore was created, the State of NH created a railroad right of way easement for a bicycle trail. And after 25 years, it certainly seems like the WOW Trail will test the existance of the easment in order to build an asphalt paved bicycle trail.
The LaDaSun reports from its' top page article that the SDS-condo board has been piling up special assessments from all its' residents into a 'war chest' to fund a legal offensive against the W,O.W. Trail so's to stop it from crossing their waterfront.
It just seems to me that it could be a difficult and uphill battle for the SDS, but one never knows what will happen when the lawyers get involved. And, if you have the money to burn, then you can always find a lawyer or two or three who will be very pleased to go digging back through the legal history of the land use in a thorough and in-depth investigation. However, what with The W,O.W. being very strongly financed, litigated, and desired by all three of the federal, state, and local governments, the SDS better have lots of money to burn.
Probably, the SDS would be better off hiring engineers, as opposed to lawyers, who could design them a tunnel that would place the W.O.W Trail into the underground where it would be out of their SDS sight.
Heaven forbid the South Down Shore residents should be subjected to having to watch as other Laconians and lakes region visiters go pedal a bicycle along the shoreline of beautifull Paugus Bay, enroute to Weirs Beach and Meredith.
That's the solution, SDS should go dig themselves a tunnel!......
