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Montague has dozens of paper streets and alleys that were laid out 150 years ago but never constructed. The legacy of a planned community that never quite got fully built out. Some of these paper streets run through people front yards, garages, and even kitchens.
The issue has always been a title headache for residents at best, but on a townwide scale we are seeing that these paper streets are inhibiting resident's ability to invest in their property and add things we want to encourage like ADUs, additions, and solar
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I am hoping to track down someone (perhaps a legal team?) that can provide technical assistance to help advise the town on a strategy to dissolve several superfluous paper streets. Most of our paper streets are believed to be fee simple ownership by the town.
I understand it is a fairly complex task requiring substantial public process, buy in from abutters, deed research, and survey work. I can reach out to KPLaw for a scope, but first I am interested if anyone has ventured upon such project?</div>
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<div style="font-family: Helv, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="color: black; background-color: white;">Walter Ramsey, AICP <b>|</b> Montague Assistant Town Administrator <b>|</b> (413) 863-3200 x 126 <b>|</b>
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