HomeMy WebLinkAbout34 SE48_3115 SBPF Comments Reg Alt Access 2_11_19
ConCom Meeting, February 11, 2019: Between 1:12 and 1:15:58 -
Steve Cohen:
There was not an order to move Baxter Road, but part of the thing we said
we would do is look at whether there’s a viable alternative here and what has
plainly, factually been determined is there is no viable alternative. It’s not as
if you could build a road off to the side and the problem would go away.
There is an alternative access plan that would allow us to [avoid] the breach
[in the] northern part of Baxter Road that would allow us to see that northern
access point developed, that point for emergency access, the access for those
people, but there is no way to replace the access in the middle and the
infrastructure and just say “oh, the emergency’s gone away”. I wish it was
that simple. It was never a time as if we said, “just give us time to fix this
problem and once it’s fixed, it all goes away.”
“It was repeatedly suggested by other people that this is supposed to be
temporary and once you fix that, there’s no imminent danger. The danger
never goes away.”
“There is an alternative access agreement in place for there to be an access
point to be opened up along the golf course. However, one of the criteria for
that is the permitting remain in place. So in other words, the failure of this
permitting eliminates this access.”
There is no scenario in which this commission would vote to disapprove the
permit and open up access. That offer is only on the table, legally, if there
is…”
The shovel-ready alternative access plan that Art Gasbarro drew up for the
town, SPBF paid for this as part of the MOU:
“But those plans can only be implemented if the town has the legal right to
do it. So, either the land owners would have to allow that to happen and one
of the criteria for allowing that to happen is there is permitting in place for
construction, or the town could do an eminent domain taking.”