Letter: LCACT's job is land preservation, not overseeing parking lots
To the editor:
We are totally mystified by the behavior of the Little Compton Agricultural Conservancy Trust (LCACT). When we buy a home, we pay money into the LCACT, the explicit purpose of which is “to preserve farmland and open space.” The LCACT is mandated to use our money to purchase easements which gives it the right to restrict the land use to agriculture.
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Letter: LCACT's job is land preservation, not overseeing parking lots
To the editor:
We are totally mystified by the behavior of the Little Compton Agricultural Conservancy Trust (LCACT). When we buy a home, we pay money into the LCACT, the explicit purpose of which is “to preserve farmland and open space.” The LCACT is mandated to use our money to purchase easements which gives it the right to restrict the land use to agriculture.
But astonishingly, we now see the LCACT engaging with Carolyn’s Sakonnet Vineyard (CSV) in a collaborative discussion as to how best to screen off parts of CSV land subject to an easement so that a large parking lot can be located on it. It can be expected that, once established, this parking lot will become permanent and that agricultural use will become a distant memory.
If the LCACT is in the business of approving parking lots on easement land, rather than preserving farmland and open space, we — as shareholders in the LCACT — would like our money back.
Paul and Miriam Clifford
Little Compton
