[Massplanners] An eloquent career summary for a post middle aged bureaucrat

[Thomas Bott]

>From the schoolof archy and mehitabel Three Archy poemsby Don Marquis I receivedthis insightful reply from a local developer who opted: instead of increasingthe screening to a neighboring property  ≈ to 10 Thuja standishii × plicata decided to sell one of their required affordablerentals, post lottery, as a market rate condo.

 Theirmissive with an artful economy of punctuation summarizes my career here in the Commonwealth.

 I hopethat this ray of sunshine helps to brighten what, from the planner’s officewindow, looks like a dreary and more marginal than good Friday.

 On Mar 28, 2024, at 12:42 PM,Thomas Bott <thomas.bott at carverma.gov>wrote:
 Dear XXXXX:As you wrote in your previous email: in my experience inmultiple towns; as a practicing planner in Massachusetts for over 25 years; asa Board Member to both professional planning organizations in the Commonwealth;as a regular presenter at conferences and trainings for planners, planningboards and ZBAs; I have never seen anyone just decide after they soldall their market rate units just to disregard the conditions that allowed themto build and then sell the affordable units as the market rate….
Aforementioned artfulreply pasted below in its entirety unadulterated by numerous [sic] notations:
first off Tom nobody’s sold all three units. There is oneunit sold that had occupancy that was sold after me and you couldn’t come to anagreement on closing out the subdivision believe you wanted some trees thatweren’t on the plan and you said that was a sticking point, so i went to Plan Bdoing what we originally thought we were going to do find an offsite spot forthe affordable. Meanwhile, I’m sitting on the other two condos that the peoplecould be living in over the ego of a town planner who thinks he has the finalsay from  what I’ve seen can’t even run the board. None of them agree withyou. You don’t agree with them. Nothing gets done, so I’m sitting on two unitsinstead of three till we get it resolved, and I will get it resolved somehowmore than willing to give carver three rentals of eqaul value  I waswilling to put  money in escrow but after my dealings with cava and you, Iknow it’s like a game to you so once again, I’m not asking your opinion I wantto know what the town wants to do where we are now  about the affordableunits and thank you for the résumé I’m sure you keep it handy. qualified as youare. i’ve included the Building department on this email. We will be finishingthe punchlist on the subdivision to turn it over as soon as we can  getsomething done. That works for the town, and myself or we can just leave thecondos sitting there instead of having a family living in them with the needfor housing. Seems like we should try to figure something out if buying thetown of cava out of the affordable units is an option forward this to the townmanager, and if something like that works, I can write the town a check or givethe board information who i should deal with ill take it from there
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Thomas Bott Town Planner CranberryLand USA
Practicing Planning in the Commonwealth since the last Millennium  #TownPlannerSilverJubilee
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