Property owners told

to correct violations
By Donna M. Perry
Staff Writer

FAYETTE – Selectmen took enforcement action against two property owners accused of land-use violations on David Pond. Each was required to take corrective measures to protect pond water quality.

Selectmen set a $750 fine for Edgar Fickett of David Pond Road and required him to make some corrective changes on his property, said Code Enforcement Officer David Giroux.

Fickett didn’t develop his property the way he proposed in his application to the Planning Board and didn’t adhere to conditions that board members had set, Giroux said.

Fickett had purchased property that had an old camp and proposed to put a new mobile home on the site. The home was going to be set back farther than the camp, he said. A driveway was installed 10 feet from the water and he built a second driveway.

Initially, Planning Board members were going to require him to remove everything he’d installed that wasn’t in the application and didn’t meet the board’s conditions, Giroux said.

But that was going to cost a lot of money and, since the intent of the town’s land-use rules is to protect the water quality, selectmen opted to fine him the $750 and require him to rip up about 30 feet of paved driveway and take other erosion mitigation measures, Giroux said.

He was allowed to keep a handicapped-accessible driveway, which was the second one installed, but he had to add gutters to the trailer and find a way to trap runoff water from going into the pond to prevent water pollution, Giroux said.

In the second case, Gloria Dalessandro who has property on Sandy River Road on David Pond had to remove a shed that she built without a permit, Giroux said. She didn’t realize that she needed the permit, he said.

Initially, she was identified as violating the land-use rules because she had paved a driveway without a permit, he said. But after investigation, it was determined she wasn’t in violation because she paved over an existing gravel driveway.

Besides removing the shed, Dalessandro also was required to cover a third of her 50-foot by 150-foot lot with 4 inches of bark mulch and 4 inches of pea-sized gravel, Giroux said.

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