SEPARATING FACT FROM FICTION
- Mike Clifford
- Jan 25, 2018
- 1 min read
The property is required to be transferred to the Town free of charge at a future point. There is no philanthropy involved here. It’s clear to me we don’t need to worry one bit about “gravel extraction” as suggested by Mr. #Guertin and Mr. #Nangle and it has nothing to do with a “decision by #RGoal to protect quality of life from competing financial interests such as gravel extraction”. We also don’t need to be fearful of someone “putting houses there” as Council President Beauregard opines. It’s all prohibited by the restrictions in the deed:
This grant is hereby restricted such that the land deeded hereunder:
1) shall not be improved by any building of any kind whatsoever larger than 400 square feet in size;
2) shall never be used by R/Goal, Inc. for any purposes other than recreation consistent with its status as a non-profit corporation; and
3) shall be deeded for no consideration by R/Goal, INC. to the Town of North Smithfield if R/Goal, INC. either ceases to exist or relinquishes its non-profit status.
A 20 acre parcel of land where a group of over 100 teenagers can apparently gather unnoticed and hold an unauthorized party is a huge liability as RGoal has learned.
Mr. #Beauregard and other #Town officials would be wise to “look before they leap” and end up taking NS taxpayers right off the cliff with them.
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