[Massplanners] Public Notice requests sent to NON property owners...

[Edgartown Planning Board]

Greetings, planners, long time no see!

So, in Edgartown, a lot (and I mean, a LOT) of the properties are held in
trust, or held by LLCs, and in many cases, the ownership records (i.e.,
assessors lists) give us the mailing address of the trust for public
notices for Special Permits, subdivisions, etc.

I just received a request from an abutter to receive notices to their home
address, instead of the one listed on the tax assessors' list.

If word got out - especially in this "NIMBY" world we seem to find
ourselves - this could turn into a disaster: it could double our mailing
count for any given action, and return us to the bad old days of
cross-referencing a list of properties with a second list of names and
manually creating mailing labels.  Given the amount of actions that even
just one board takes in any given month (six to ten, usually), there just
aren't enough hours in the day.

Has anyone come across this as an issue?  How do you manage it?  Does your
property assessor provide for a second mailing address in their tax records?

- Doug.
(Back in the saddle at Edgartown, at least for the time being...)
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