Public Launching Ban Gilford

jmen24 · 02-11-2010, 09:08 AM

Tis, here's the deal.

What Woodsy pointed to in the link is how the situation with my folks land went down, the only difference is the two lots they owned were conforming. Both at over five acres (2 acre min. zoning area), both had over 200 feet of frontage (200 foot zoning area), but the reason the town merged them is because they share a common access point for a driveway, even though the existing lot that their house is on actually has two openings for a driveway (grandfathered). They had absolutely no knowledge of this until they sold the land.

The reason for the survey was not related to this issue, but was to help the buyers (family member) get a more favorable location for the house without encroaching on a lot line, this was about 10 years ago.

tis · 02-11-2010, 11:36 AM

OK. Thanks for that! I feel a little better. Still, I don't believe that towns should in any way be able to make a decision to combine lots. It is very sad that our land is only ours for as long as the government allows it to be ours.

DRH · 02-11-2010, 12:04 PM

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Originally Posted by tis

OK. Thanks for that! I feel a little better. Still, I don't believe that towns should in any way be able to make a decision to combine lots. It is very sad that our land is only ours for as long as the government allows it to be ours.

I know a West Alton resident who owned two adjacent lots, each with a house on it. Each of them is a conforming lot and they were held in the same name. A number of years ago, Alton combined both the lots into one for property tax purposes and began to send the owner one tax bill instead of two. The owner did not realize what had happened until he began to do some estate planning and discovered that he would not be allowed to pass on one house and lot to one child and the other house and lot to another child because the Town had combined them into one lot with two homes on it. He obtained legal counsel and was able to get the Town to re-divide the property back into the original two lots.

02-11-2010, 09:08 AM	#1
jmen24 Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 1,139 Thanks: 223 Thanked 319 Times in 181 Posts	Tis, here's the deal. What Woodsy pointed to in the link is how the situation with my folks land went down, the only difference is the two lots they owned were conforming. Both at over five acres (2 acre min. zoning area), both had over 200 feet of frontage (200 foot zoning area), but the reason the town merged them is because they share a common access point for a driveway, even though the existing lot that their house is on actually has two openings for a driveway (grandfathered). They had absolutely no knowledge of this until they sold the land. The reason for the survey was not related to this issue, but was to help the buyers (family member) get a more favorable location for the house without encroaching on a lot line, this was about 10 years ago.

02-11-2010, 11:36 AM	#2
tis Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 6,749 Thanks: 752 Thanked 1,459 Times in 1,016 Posts	OK. Thanks for that! I feel a little better. Still, I don't believe that towns should in any way be able to make a decision to combine lots. It is very sad that our land is only ours for as long as the government allows it to be ours.