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Last modified: Friday, March 28, 2008 1:04 AM EDT
Foxboro board may call in police
BY FRANK MORTIMER /
SUN CHRONICLE STAFF
FOXBORO - The conservation commission aims to conduct its inspections of wetlands on the East Street property of planning board member Scott M. Barbato - even if it takes the presence of a police officer.
Commission member Judith Johnson said this week she will not tolerate the interference she encounted about a week ago from a Barbato family member during a site visit she made in preparation for the wetlands hearing.
"I want the clients aware that I have the right to be on the property," Johnson told Leeann Bradley of Outback Engineering, which has applied for a delineation of wetlands on the Barbato land. "If that happens again, I won't go back."
"You will go back - with a police officer," acting Chairman Allan Curtis said. "I have zero tolerance for this at this point."
Johnson said the wetlands delineation submission gives the board permission to enter the property without making prior arrangements.
Barbato has been in conflict with various town officials in connection with tree and earth removal activities on his 16-plus acre property at 204 East St. along the Canoe River. He has called the police on a board member who was taking photos on the site, which has "no trespassing" signs posted on it.
Barbato has a pending battle in Norfolk Superior Court with an Easton developer, Endriunas Bros., over a failed deal to build a subdivision on the property.Outback Engineering applied to the commission Feb. 20 for a wetlands delineation on behalf of an entity known as Canoe River Village. A hearing Monday on that application was continued to 7:20 p.m., April 7.
Board members say they want to see that maps reflect the earth removal work Barbato had done on the property. Barbato's work resulted in a cease-and-desist order from the commission in 2006, and the order remains in effect. |