Monadnock Ledger-Transcript
Published: 2/3/2021 5:17:22 PM
Temple’s Conservation Commission decision not to enter a contract allowing Ben Fisk to harvest maple sap from the Temple Town Forest was upheld after Fisk brought his objection to the Select Board and was heard at their Monday night meeting.
Fisk currently has 50 active taps set up on the town land on North Road, which the Conservation Commission agreed to let him keep using until the end of the current sugaring season. Fisk got on the Select Board’s Monday night agenda, which was scheduled specially to discuss the postponement of Town Meeting and voting, after he asked to get on the Jan. 26 meeting agenda but was skipped after a Board member forgot to mention him, Select Board Chair Ken Caisse said.
Monadnock Ledger-Transcript
Published: 1/25/2021 4:40:24 PM
Legal review is ongoing in Temple for the 16,080-square-foot building Ben’s Maple Products LLC proposed for the corner of Route 101 and Webster Highway. Proponents of the project introduced what they believed were legal precedents for the project, which requires both a variance and a special exception from the Temple Zoning Board of Adjustment, at a hearing on Jan. 19. 42 people attended the virtual meeting.
At the crux of the request for a variance is an unusual situation: Applicant Ben Fisk obtained written permission from the former residents of an adjacent house, as was required since the proposed building is sited within 500 feet of that residence. However, homeownership has since passed to the mortgage finance goliath Freddie Mac, and the applicant’s months of requests for permission from the company have gone unanswered, according to representatives at last Tuesday’s meeting. The applicant’s lawyer, Tom Han
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