DirtyJobsGuy
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Re:Town Farm Dairy Halts Production - 2008/09/15 16:08
My point was not that the land be a "poor farm". Clearly Amos Eno wanted to make a continuing provision for the town's disadvantaged. This is not being provided by a commercial money losing dairy. When he made the gift a poor farm was a self sustaining way to feed, house and employ the poor.
Mary Glassman said she want's the land to remain a farm. Now she's a Lawyer, and should know that the intent of the donor is important not just from a legal sense but a moral one as well. This should not be turned into another issue of open space if it cannot meet the prime objective of aiding the town's disadvantaged. It only took me a few minutes to think of some non-agricultural ways to use the property to meet the donor's intent.
1. Low income housing
2. Commercial space for an organization like Goodwill.
3. Leased for commercial use with the income funding the town's general welfare accounts.
The very fact that so many parties had to be "immunized" by a legal review of the Town Farm Dairy agreement says someting was not on the up and up.
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