Council delays vote on proposed firing range land swap
By Patrick Cassidy, Cape Cod Times, Hyannis, Mass. | |
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During its regular meeting Thursday night
The proposal to exchange 16.3 acres of conservation land where the range is currently located for 17 acres of town-owned land off
"It was never part of the plan to give up part of this land for a shooting range," said
Sandler and other residents who live in the area argued that Town Meeting had voted to make the area conservation land in the late 1960s and that the range was established illegally nearly 20 years later.
Users of the range countered that the area was used for shooting practice going back to the 1950s and 1960s.
"I personally shot on that range in the sixties," Town Councilor
"I cannot support this land swap for that reason," Wallace said.
During a presentation before the vote,
In
"This piece of property had to be without restriction," Ells said.
To make the swap requires a majority vote of the town's
On
Crocker, a Realtor, said he was uncomfortable with the idea of moving forward without having the memorandum of understanding signed and moved that the vote be postponed to
"We will sign the (memorandum of understanding)," he said. "It's just a matter of just kind of having this review."
A proposed amendment could have made the land swap contingent on the memorandum of understanding being signed, Town Attorney
"This isn't resolved so we're in no position to vote on it," he said.
After the vote to postpone,
"The range was built in a residential area," she said.
Additionally it abuts conservation land and affects the ability to use that land as was intended, she said.
"We're waiting to see what happens," she said about whether neighbors would take legal action if the
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