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In a 3-2 decision, the Peterborough Zoning Board approved a variance to allow Walden Eco Village to keep 10 structures within the wetlands buffer.Eco Village was first designed and built prior to 2012, when the zoning ordinance was amended to include.
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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.