JAY – Selectmen tabled action Monday on a proposal to buy a downtown building and land to make way for parking.
Pauline Adams of Westbrook wrote to the town manager after she learned that selectmen banned parking on Main Street. Adams said she and her brother were willing to sell the property for municipal parking for the town assessed value of $51,393.
Beginning Aug. 1 no parking will be prohibited on the street from 8 to 88 Main St. to make the road safer.
Town Manager Ruth Marden also noted that another resident had called and said he would be willing to sell some property next fall.
People have also called, Marden said, and asked why would the town want to buy property?
Selectman Parker Kinney said he didn’t want to see the town get into the municipal parking business.
A state Department of Transportation upgrade of the street, also known as Route 4, isn’t expected to begin until 2007.
Selectmen’s Chairman Bill Harlow said the only reason the property issue came up was because the woman approached the town after the vote to eliminate parking.
Kinney asked if the town had an obligation to provide parking?
“Not that I know of,” Harlow said.
Kinney said he would like to go down to look at the property before the town jumped into anything.
Marden said especially since the proposed project is four or five years out.
dperry@sunjournal.com
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