LIVERMORE – Town officials have sold two land parcels for a total of $27,700. The parcels were foreclosed upon for unpaid taxes.
The bulk of the money will go into a highway equipment capital reserve fund that voters approved in June.
The town has also settled with Jose Diaz of Jay in reference to violations of shoreland zoning violations, Livermore Administrator Kurt Shaub said Monday.
A 44-acre parcel off a discontinued stretch of Old Leavitt Road, formerly owned by Robert Maciel, was sold to Jean and Johnny Castonguay for $16,500. The men own a piece that abuts the property, Schaub said, and the land was valuable mainly to abutters who have a way to access it.
The town foreclosed on a $351.52 lien for that property, he said. The total taxes owed on the property was $1,088.92.
The town also sold 58 acres that had belonged to Scott Bonnevie before the town foreclosed on a lien for $354.29, Schaub said. The total taxes due were $1,354.22.
The property off Butter Hill Road was sold to abutters Randy and Janet Nichols for $11,200, Schaub said.
The town also recently settled in court for $2,500, which includes a $1,500 fine, with Jose Diaz for cutting vegetation within 100 feet of Long Pond at his camp at the southern end of the pond, Schaub said.
Schaub said the town had been to court with Diaz before, and he was prohibited by court order to cut the vegetation.
The town initially fined him $2,500 in addition to legal fees, but the court reduced the fine to $1,500 and awarded the town $1,000 in legal fees. Diaz paid the fine to the town on Thursday.
Diaz has until July 15 to work with Clyde Walton of Fayette to establish a mediation plan to prevent more erosion into the pond, Schaub said.
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