Board of Aldermen 10-09-2018 Page 2
COMMUNICATIONS REQUIRING ONLY PROCEDURAL ACTIONS AND WRITTEN REPORTS
FROM LIAISONS
From: J. Bradford Westgate, Esquire
Re: The Springs, a 62+ Condominium Community (699 and 701 West Hollis Street)
Petition for Waiver of School Impact Fees
There being no objection, President McCarthy accepted the communication, placed it on file and
referred it to the Planning & Economic Development Committee, the Nashua City Planning Board,
and the Administrative Officer
PERIOD FOR PUBLIC COMMENT RELATIVE TO ITEMS EXPECTED TO BE ACTED UPON THIS
EVENING
Ed Gilbertson Yes Mr. Chairman, | am Ed Gilbertson of 121 Conant Road and | am going to be one of
the petitioners, one of the two petitioners, the other one is Mike Fournier here from 119 Conant Road
and we are petitioning for a discontinuance of the unnecessary right of way on Conant Road. It is for
119 and 121 Conant Road only. It’s a partial discontinuance, there are four properties shown on your
plot that you have. It is only for the two on the right side which have darker boundaries around them.
Those two properties join Katie Lane, so they are grouped together.
When the City discontinues its responsibilities for maintenance of that area, or liability of that area, it is
one clean break on the City’s responsibilities. That was a concern of Engineer Dookran, so we
complied with that. This is revision 6 of this plan and our surveyor has gotten together with the City
Surveyor and every comment that the City has had has been incorporated, added in, utilities all of that.
It has been reviewed by the City staff, legal and by the engineering staff for approval. It went to the
Planning Board and the Planning Board passed it and recommended approval. It went to the
Committee on Infrastructure and they recommended approval. The City Engineer endorsed it.
The City will benefit in a couple of ways. One is a minor amount of tax revenue but some tax revenue.
They release liability to the land, so we assume that. So the City no longer has liability there and the
maintenance responsibility like snow removal on sidewalks, we pick up that. So that’s some of the
areas where the City benefits.
| would just like to also say at the Committee on Infrastructure | mentioned this, but | think it is worth
mentioning again. We've ha a tremendous amount of help from the City staff. We knew nothing
coming into this, about how to do one of these petitions. So Alderman Jette guided us a bit on who to
contact and Engineer Dookran and City Surveyor Mark Jennings, they worked with our surveyor and
worked with us. They explained everything; they worked with us and we got all revisions. You can
really be proud of the quality of the engineering staff. | have worked with a lot of engineers and they are
really outstanding quality and you can be proud that they are on your City, | am. Any questions?
Patti Toupin My name is Patti Toupin, I’m from 123 Conant Road and | am speaking on regards of the
discontinuance of Conant Road. | oppose it, the discontinuance, but | am happy to share the reasons
when we get to that part, if that is ok.
President McCarthy
This is the last opportunity.
Ms. Toupin Is it, oh is this the opportunity to talk about it? May | give out some photos.
Alderwoman Melizzi-Golja You need to also speak into the mic. Ok thank you.
