<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">South Hadley is interested too.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Oct 10, 2023 at 12:02 PM Fiona Coughlan via MassPlanners <<a href="mailto:massplanners@masscptc.org">massplanners@masscptc.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg-7196859183035700856">





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In recent months, additional maintenance created by new subdivisions and other<span style="letter-spacing:-0.05pt">
</span>types of development have put a strain on our Town’s DPW. The common areas that fall within what is, or will become, Town property when the private way becomes public is becoming such an issue that our TA’s office has issued a new policy. The issue is
 poised to worsen with the upcoming growth we are seeing.  <u></u><u></u></p>
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Does anyone have any suggestions on how to enforce something like this and best practices for our regulatory boards? We wish to keep Grafton beautiful, but don’t’ have the human capital, budget, or equipment.  <u></u><u></u></p>
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Should the options simply be: 1) that residents <span style="font-size:11.5pt">maintain the areas themselves; or 2) that there should be a HOA fee (or something similar) written into the conditions to fund future landscape maintenance?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks,<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Fiona Coughlan, AICP<u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
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