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Monadnock Ledger-Transcript
Published: 7/12/2021 4:42:35 PM
The Town of Peterborough seeks to levy hefty fines for zoning and code violations against former Walden Eco Village landlord Akhil Garland and the Garland Family Realty Trust. The town filed its own suit against Garland in May, several months after Garland blamed the town for the December 2020 eviction of all 25 tenants at the Walden Eco Village in a separate, ongoing suit that several evicted tenants filed against Garland and his associated business and land trust in December.
The mass eviction followed a site inspection that revealed a number of permit and safety violations on the site, which was comprised of rental cottages as well as tiny houses, whose tenants accessed kitchen and bathroom facilities in a separate, communal building. Peterborough officials determined that eight of 15 total rental units were missing building permits, and other permitted structures were operating beyond their permitted use. Garland in
Monadnock Ledger-Transcript
Published: 5/24/2021 2:53:13 PM
A handful of former Walden Eco Village residents were awarded damages directly related to their abrupt eviction from Garland Way in Peterborough this past December, according to a court order dated May 19. It is a milestone in a lawsuit some of the site’s 25 former tenants brought forward against landlord Akhil Garland, his company, Utopia Living LLC, and landowning entity the Garland Family Trust, soon after the Town of Peterborough ordered the eviction upon discovering a number of permit and safety violations on site.
The site was comprised of rental cottages as well as smaller “casitas,” or tiny houses, whose tenants accessed kitchen and bathroom facilities in a separate, communal building. Peterborough officials determined that eight of 15 total rental units were missing building permits, and other permitted structures were operating beyond their permitted use during the town’s December inspection of the site.
Next week, Peterborough voters will decide on Article 2, which seeks to strike a clause in the Open Space Residential Development ordinance that gives Planning Board members the ability to modify the requirements. Although the allowance was intended.
Monadnock Ledger-Transcript
Published: 4/28/2021 2:56:07 PM
The Town of Peterborough sent a detailed list of violations found on the Walden Eco Village property in December to Akhil Garland, trustee of the Garland Family Realty Trust, last week.
The letter, dated April 20, summarizes the findings of the town’s Building Code Enforcement Officer and Fire Inspector, and the State’s electrical inspectors. The Town was able to compile the letter after receiving the state’s final investigation report last month, Town Administrator Nicole MacStay said.
Garland received preliminary notice of the violations in December, when the town inspected the property and found safety and code violations on site, including missing building permits for eight of 15 total rental units, and permitted structures being used beyond their intended purpose. The town conducted a walk-through of the property around Thanksgiving as part of a subdivision proposal, and noticed unpermitted structures with ele