Hopefully, these property owners have filed for abatements, maybe even filing with the ATB because if you think your property is worth something with blasting in your backyard.....well, just maybe you should think again....or take a look at communities that have been subjected to Slot Barns.
As abutters, we've just received notice that Plainridge will resume blasting on February 25th, and continue blasting for three weeks. Of course, they have not kept their word on the length of blasting in the past, so I won't bother to believe what's written on the notice this time.
As someone who attended all of the Planning Board meetings regarding this project, I was not made aware of the fact that there would be so much blasting involved, all with absolutely no mitigation to the neighbors for noise and inconvenience. I shudder to think of what we'll be forced to endure when the next phase of the building commences.
Perhaps, had Plainridge not built its garage as close as they could to their neighbors, we wouldn't mind so much.
But some neighbors have it worse than others.
Some neighbors find themselves in possession of a "Mutual Non-Interference Agreement" signed by Francis Daddario and GTWO, the former owners of the land on which Shepardville Woods and Plainridge are now built. The “Agreement” says that Daddario and GTWO agreed, “not to object to any such future development plans of the other by any of the following means: oral or written opposition to governmental permits, approvals, and or rezoning, at or connection with hearings, town meetings, administrative proceedings and/or administrative or judicial appeals.” They also wrote that this agreement between these two developers would apply to anyone who owns the properties in the future.
One could imagine that the residents of Shepardville Woods might fear that, under the "Agreement," they can't speak out against anything happening at Plainridge, no matter how loud or intrusive. They might feel they can't speak against Plainridge at Planning Board meetings, Town Meetings, or to make a complaint to the Board of Health about how the noise of the blasting and construction adversely affects their family members, for instance.
Surely, Plainridge wouldn't want its neighbors to live in that kind of fear from this document. Surely, the powers that be would agree that the "Agreement" was made between businessmen, and shouldn't apply to individual homeowners who settled on the land.
The right and proper thing for Plainridge to do would be to tear up this fourteen-year-old "Agreement" and notify their neighbors that there will be no repercussions should any of them exercise their First Amendment rights and their responsibility as citizens of Plainville.
In the meantime, let the blasting begin. Again.
Mary-Ann Greanier
19 Mirimichi Street
Plainville, MA 02762
508.695.2794 phone
508.369.1787 mobile
JPGs of the 3 pages of the "Non-Interference Agreement":
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