The Selectmen’s meeting is in about a week, and Mike and I are trying to get everything together for it. We have the wetlands permit, the driveway permit, and according to the application details, we just need to basically put together a plot plan with where our driveway is and whatever obstructions there might be within 500 feet in each direction. I believe it was 500 feet anyways…
But guess what, we have to do more than what’s on the application now. Mike met with the Road Agent yesterday. I’m beginning to think twice about EVER buying land in this town, which to me is really sad because I’ve always wanted to live in a quiet, peaceful little town, but just this driveway process has been so incredibly infuriating. We have everything required to get our driveway permit, except for the Selectman’s and Road Agent’s signatures, which requires that plot plan. When Mike met with the Road Agent yesterday, the Road Agent said we’d have to get in touch with the planning board. I had already sent an email to the Selectman’s assistant (which seems to be the ONLY person in the town offices that knows what the heck is going on!) because the Road Agent hinted about this when Mike talked to him last week to set up a meeting to see the property and where we want to put our driveway.
Not to get too far off subject- but if there are other special requirements, why isn’t it written in the applications or any other area that we can find?! They aren’t even written down anywhere! If I have one thing that absolutely drives me up a wall, it’s when we ask what is required and only get half of it. When it comes to applications and permits normally everything is written in plain text right there… Hello? Anyways, the fact that we had to contact the Planning Board isn’t what upsets me the most. Mike called the head today (coincidentally, the Selectman’s Assistant is also the Secretary for the board… and he’s the one that told us that we didn’t have to contact them!!!) and the head told Mike that they have nothing to do with the Driveway.
What ticks me off the most is that the Road Agent wants us to get our driveway ENGINEERED. Are you frikken serious?! He wants us to get an engineer in there to tell us what size culvert we need… Well it says on YOUR application that YOU are supposed to tell us what size culvert we need IF you want to see it a size other than 15” in diameter!! Plus- why can’t we just use the same size as what’s going under the road that links the other side to ours, which is where most of the water is coming from anyways? I swear they are trying to pull out every road block POSSIBLE to keep us from building a home- and that just makes me want to dig in my heels and be even more hard headed than I already am! I’m sick of playing this game- but if that’s how you want to play- fine- I can play this game.
Small town politics is really infuriating. I recommend anyone looking to buy a house or a piece of land in a small town to think twice. We’ve been trying to build JUST a driveway for about 9 months now! REALLY?!
Love always finds a way… and so shall we!
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