LOVELL – Members of a condominium association are calling for the removal of a second boat dock constructed last spring by the new owners of the Pleasant Point Inn on Kezar Lake.

In a civil lawsuit filed June 30 in Oxford County Superior Court, the Farrington’s Owners Association maintain the second dock has encroached on their common sandy beach area, reducing its size and making swimming unsafe due to more boat traffic.

Five of the association’s members have filed the suit on behalf of the association, which was formed in 1990 to include 20 cottages and a “main lodge lot,” otherwise known as Pleasant Point Inn.

An agreement made when the condo development was created allows the cottage owners shared use of the 20-foot wide beach owned, maintained and supervised by the owners of the Pleasant Point Inn. The agreement allows the inn to establish regulations for use of the beach and assign designated areas of use for boating, bathing, sunbathing and picnicking. In return, the condo owners pay a use fee.

One boat dock was constructed at the north end of the beach shortly after the condominium was created, and the sandy lake bottom beach in front of the inn was used as a swimming area, marked off by buoys and ropes.

The arrangement worked fine for over a decade, until Conway Lake Resorts of Laconia, N.H., took over management of the inn last December, the suit alleges.

Last spring they replaced the existing dock on the north end of the beach and constructed a second dock with boat slips attached to the first dock.

“The second dock with boat slips will increase boat traffic in the beach area, will create a safety hazard to swimmers, and will reduce the beach area available for swimming and other recreational uses,” the suit states.

In addition, the suit alleges the second dock should not have been constructed without first getting approval from at least five owners of the condo units, as stipulated in the original agreement.

The condo owners wrote to Conway Lake Resorts in May, asking them to remove the second dock by May 26. The second dock still had not been removed as of the June 30 filing of the suit.

The suit states that the newly designated area for swimming “has no sand beach at high water and the bottom of the lake in front of part of the newly designated area is covered by rocks which are difficult to walk on.”

No court date has been set for a first hearing in the case. Richard Spencer, a lawyer with the Portland firm of Drummond, Woodsum and MacMahon, is representing the condo owners in the case.

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