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Town Seeks to Acquire 135-Acre Parcel

BOXFORD, MA-The town's Community Preservation Committee wants to use funds from the Community Preservation Act to acquire a 135-acre parcel. This would be the first use of those funds from the Acta 3% surcharge on property taxeswhich was passed in this town last year.

By Naomi Grossman | Updated on April 11, 2002

BOXFORD, MA-The town’s Community Preservation Committee is trying to raise funds to acquire a 135 acre parcel. A 40-unit residential development has already been proposed for the site.

According to Barbara Jessel, chairwoman of the Community Preservation Committee and a member of the board of selectman, her committee contacted the Trust for Public Land, a national organization, when it heard the property was available. “We’ve worked with them before,” she tells GlobeSt.com. “We contacted them to see of they could put a deal together.”

The Trust negotiated a selling price of $4.75 million for the land. The Committee would like three million of that amount to come from the Community Preservation Act, which was passed here last year. The Act placed a three percent surcharge on property taxes in the town to be used for land preservation as well as affordable housing and historical preservation.

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