To: Interested parties
From: Will Lund (Holmbom family) (e-mail Will.Sportster@yahoo.com)
Re: Cost questions for gravel parking lot
Date: May 20, 2015
Voters will be asked on June
9 whether or not to support negotiations among the Town, the Golf Club and the
Holmbom family for the building of a 40-car parking lot between the Holmbom
house and the Stone Wharf.
This would be (we believe)
the largest parking lot on the island. We believe voters should have an
understanding of the costs of the project. These would include expenses for:
1) Surveying
2) Title work and other legal fees
3) Zoning change
4) Design of the parking lot
5) Environmental studies
6) Permitting
7) Engineering, including water drainage plan
8) Landscaping
9) Moving and relocating of a power pole and lines
10)
Materials –
subsurface and surface
11)
Stockade fence (185
feet long)
12)
Plantings along
fence
13)
Lighting
14)
Maintenance
(litter, snow, herbicide for weeds, repairs after rain)
15)
Security and enforcement
(no tent trucks, no long-term parking, no parties)
The Selectmen have shown
great courtesy to the Holmbom family since we were brought into the
conversation earlier this year. We
appreciate the willingness of the town to agree to provide fencing, screening
and plantings to mitigate sound, noise and visual impact. We appreciate the offer to deed the
strip of land between the Wharf Road and the house. We appreciate the willingness of the Club to discuss and
negotiate 1) a visual easement over land to the north of the Holmbom lot; and
2) a transfer the narrow ÒgullyÓ on the north side of the Holmbom lot to the
family to provide buffer from possible future building on Golf Club property.
If itÕs the will of the
voters, we will continue to negotiate in good faith with the other
parties. However, we are concerned
that if the Town underestimates the cost of the project, the items that will
not get done are the very items (e.g.,
fencing; screening) that are the conditions under which we have stated we will
not challenge the proposed zoning change and construction.