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.
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Monadnock Ledger-Transcript
Published: 3/17/2021 3:55:58 PM
The proposed 26-home subdivision on the former site of the Walden Eco Village in Peterborough was met with a considerable amount of public opposition at a Planning Board meeting on Monday. It was the first opportunity for public comment on the formal proposal.
Applicant Akhil Garland first described his plan to subdivide the Walden Eco Village in July 2020, at which point 25 tenants were renting the seven cottages and nine tiny houses, or casitas, on site. The 52-acre property is accessed via Garland Way off Middle Hancock Road in Peterborough’s rural district. The project’s application process led town staff to discover that 15 structures on the property lacked required permits, including all the casitas. Town officials observed hazardous electrical and gas configurations during a December site visit associated with the application, which caused the town to evict the site’s 25 tenants on Dec. 16. A class-action law