[MassHistPres] Gov. Stoughton Land Trust

[Marcia Starkey]

Hello,

As usual, the most useable land historically is in agricultural use..prime 
agricultural soils have very specific USDA criteria among them, that they 
are well drained. That is why the best farmland becomes prime targets for 
development. In this case, the fields may be developable altho their size 
suggests possible project-breaking bufferzone reductions. The woodland are 
probably only for natural resource value.

Marcia Starkey, Greenfield

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Veronica McClure" <veronica_mcclure at harvard.edu>
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Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 10:00 AM
Subject: Re: [MassHistPres] Gov. Stoughton Land Trust


>
> If the 34 acres are mostly swampy lowland, as Tim Orwig writes, what about
> wetlands and other ecological/environmental factors and provisions?
>
> Seems to me it would be bad all around to build housing for anyone, and
> smacking of discrimination to build housing for low-income people, on
> unsuitable ground, and lose the ecological value of the wetlands in the
> process -- to say nothing of the value of the property as a historic 
> whole,
> which also just happens to offer increasingly precious open space.
>
> Veronica McClure
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