<div dir="auto">OH MY GOD! <div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">My reply would have been </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">"As you have violated the conditions of your approval, the Building Commissioner and Planning Board will be notified. I will recommend the Planning Board seek a cease and desist; an order that the site be restored to support only one single family residence; and the subdivision be rescinded."</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Would love to sign it </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">"See you in bankruptcy court</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">cava"</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">But would have to bite my tongue. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Daniel Fortier, AICP Retired Planner </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Mar 29, 2024, 10:27 AM Thomas Bott via MassPlanners <<a href="mailto:massplanners@masscptc.org">massplanners@masscptc.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:16px"><div dir="ltr"><div><p>From the school
of archy and mehitabel <a href="https://ianchadwick.com/blog/three-archy-poems-by-don-marquis/" rel="nofollow noreferrer" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(51,143,233);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Three Archy poems
by Don Marquis</span></a> I received
this insightful reply from a local developer who opted: instead of increasing
the screening to a neighboring property ≈ to 10 <i><span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">Thuja standishii × plicata </span></i><span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">decided to sell one of their required affordable
rentals, post lottery, as a market rate condo.</span></p>
<p><span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-0.1pt">Their
missive with an artful economy of punctuation summarizes my career here in the Commonwealth.</span></p>
<p><span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span><span style="color:rgb(32,33,34)">I hope
that this ray of sunshine helps to brighten what, from the planner’s office
window, looks like a dreary and more marginal than good Friday.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#202122"> </span>On Mar 28, 2024, at 12:42 PM,
Thomas Bott <<a href="mailto:thomas.bott@carverma.gov" rel="nofollow noreferrer" target="_blank">thomas.bott@carverma.gov</a>>
wrote:</p>
<div><span style="font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"></span> Dear XXXXX:</div><div>As you wrote in your previous email: in my experience in
multiple towns; as a practicing planner in Massachusetts for over 25 years; as
a Board Member to both professional planning organizations in the Commonwealth;
as a regular presenter at conferences and trainings for planners, planning
boards and ZBAs; I <u>have never seen</u> anyone just decide after they sold
all their market rate units just to disregard the conditions that allowed them
to build and then sell the affordable units as the market rate….</div>
<div><b><br></b></div><div><b>Aforementioned artful
reply pasted below in its entirety unadulterated by numerous [sic] notations</b>:</div></div></div></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:16px"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>first off Tom nobody’s sold all three units. There is one
unit sold that had occupancy that was sold after me and you couldn’t come to an
agreement on closing out the subdivision believe you wanted some trees that
weren’t on the plan and you said that was a sticking point, so i went to Plan B
doing what we originally thought we were going to do find an offsite spot for
the affordable. Meanwhile, I’m sitting on the other two condos that the people
could be living in over the ego of a town planner who thinks he has the final
say from what I’ve seen can’t even run the board. None of them agree with
you. You don’t agree with them. Nothing gets done, so I’m sitting on two units
instead of three till we get it resolved, and I will get it resolved somehow
more than willing to give carver three rentals of eqaul value I was
willing to put money in escrow but after my dealings with cava and you, I
know it’s like a game to you so once again, I’m not asking your opinion I want
to know what the town wants to do where we are now about the affordable
units and thank you for the résumé I’m sure you keep it handy. qualified as you
are. i’ve included the Building department on this email. We will be finishing
the punchlist on the subdivision to turn it over as soon as we can get
something done. That works for the town, and myself or we can just leave the
condos sitting there instead of having a family living in them with the need
for housing. Seems like we should try to figure something out if buying the
town of cava out of the affordable units is an option forward this to the town
manager, and if something like that works, I can write the town a check or give
the board information who i should deal with ill take it from there</div></div></div></div><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:16px"><div dir="ltr"><div><p>Sent from my iPhone</p></div></div></div></blockquote><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:16px"><div dir="ltr"><div><p><span style="font-size:11.0pt"></span></p>
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<div>TBott</div><div>Please note that I too
have no standing in the punctuation community.</div></div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div style="font-family:new times,serif;font-size:16px"><div style="font-size:16px;font-family:serif">Thomas Bott Town Planner <font color="#9d1811">CranberryLand USA</font></div><div style="font-size:16px;font-family:serif"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><span id="m_-2316230824774919152ydpfb687fb8yiv6753380931yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1519652102965_53159" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font id="m_-2316230824774919152ydpfb687fb8yiv6753380931yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1519652102965_53160" color="#4c76a2" style="font-size:16px;font-family:serif;font-style:italic;background-color:inherit">Practicing Planning in the Commonwealth since the last Millennium </font><font color="#808080" style="background-color:inherit" size="2"><i>#TownPlannerSilverJubilee<br></i></font></span></div></div></div></div></div>-- <br>
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