Update
This 3-lot subdivision of 53 acres was approved by the PB with the provisions of only two waterfront lots and one back lot, no further subdivision from there, and no surrender of the Town's right to a Happy Homes to Harris Shore connection. Seemed like quite a coup for the town and neighborhood, but one neighbor kept fighting against it, with the support of some other (uninformed?, unintelligent?, greedy?) neighbors. While the other neighbors just wanted to see it left undeveloped and remain their personal tax-free 53-acre backyard (which just ain't gonna happen on a property like this), the one neighbor was rumored to want some of the land gifted to him in exchange for ending the harrassment. His alledged development plans for that land sound like they would surely be much much worse for those other neighbors than the 3-lot subdivision. But the developer finally just threw in his towel. Who needs this aggravation over a 3-lot subdivision? And the value of the property, WHICH IS RIPE FOR A MANY-LOT SUBDIVISION, has probably tripled since he bought it. So low and behold, he is selling the property to a reportedly "major" developer and it will be very ironic if that developer ends up putting a 20-lot subdivion in, as is probably very approvable there.
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
'Till it's gone
They paved Paradise
And put up a parking lot
They took all the trees
Put 'em in a tree museum
And then charged the people
A dollar and half just to see 'em
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