Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Owners of Nantucket Oceanfront Property Get Small Settlement in $2.7 Million Lawsuit

“Owners of Oceanfront Property Get Small Settlement in $2.7M Lawsuit”
The Inquirer & Mirror, May 16, 2008
By Jason Graziadei

NANTUCKET -- While the battle against coastal erosion along the Sconset bluff has grabbed all the headlines in recent months, another dispute over the island's eroding beaches along the south shore has moved along quietly in Superior Court over the last five years.

On Wednesday, a jury ordered the town to pay a group of Sheep Pond Road residents $145,832 in damages related to the loss of access to their homes after a portion of the road washed away in 2002. ...

When the town declined to conduct an eminent domain taking to construct a new road, the residents struck a deal with the Nantucket Conservation Foundation (NCF) to build a new road on NCF property, but the agreement came with strict conditions. ... ©

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