Article in Milford Daily News re: the land that G&U seeks: "Hopedale residents ask Town Meeting to decide fate of land deal"
Despite Hopedale's most recent Prop 2 override having failed at the ballot box (town has a $300,000 budget gap), 361 residents have signed a petition to transfer the G&U-Town of Hopedale deal's right of 1st refusal from a vote by selectmen to a Special Town Meeting vote scheduled for October 24 where the petitioners hope the townspeople will vote in favor of a $1.2M bond to buy the land to ensure the it doesn't fall into the G&U's hands.
“I don’t want the land to go to the railroad,” resident Sean Reilly said, echoing a distrust of the railroad voiced by other residents. “I don’t care what that environmental study says. I want the land for the residents.”
Of course the RR's property tax paid to Hopedale would go up if G&U acquires the land...
Reminiscent of the angry mob scene from Young Frankenstein...
https://www.milforddailynews.com/news/2 ... -land-deal