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O•) <br />JOEL RUSSELL, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW <br />P.O. Boli 491, Northampton, Massachusetts 01061 <br />(413) 584-7228 ioelnisl(a,,gMail.com <br />,- dmitled in surd Catuec titu! <br />March 3.2018 <br />Mr. David Wylock, Chairman <br />And Planning Board Members <br />Town of Dover Planning Board <br />126 East Duncan Hill Road <br />Dover Plains, NY 12522 <br />Re: Harlem Ifalle-v Homestead Project. 147 Old Forge Road. Toivn ofDover <br />Dear Mr. Wylock and Members of the Planning Board: <br />cr <br />On behalf of the Dutchess Land Conservancy (DLC), a not-for-profit conservation <br />organization. I write this letter to clarify several issues related to the proposed Harlem <br />Valley Homestead (PVH) Project Master Plan (the "Plan"). <br />As you know. the DLC holds a conservation easement on approximately 86.E acres of the <br />applicant's property-, formerly owned by Janet Pickering. The purpose of this letter is to <br />further explain a few points that the DLC originally noted in its letter of January 29. <br />2018.1 do this in hopes of avoiding potential complications during your upcoming review <br />process. These comments do not address the merits of the applicant's Plan, but rather <br />focus on how the conservation easement provisions apply to the Plan and may affect the <br />Plan's feasibility. <br />I recognize that the Dover Planning Board has its oxen standards and criteria to apply in <br />reviewing this application and these are independent of the requirements of the DLC's <br />conservation easement. Both the DLC's easement and the Dover Zoning Law regulate <br />the use and development of the easement -protected property and they operate <br />independently of each other. However, it is helpful for the DLC to understand how the <br />zoning affects this property and for the Dover Planning Board to understand the effect of <br />the conservation easement. since anv_ development of the property must comply with <br />both. <br />Road Access Between the Easement -Protected Property and adjoining land to the <br />north. <br />The HVH Master Plan shows a road or driveway labeled "Existing Farm Road" that <br />connects the easement -protected property with the unrestricted property to the north <br />where most of the proposed development would occur. As noted in the DLC's last letter. <br />