April 5 - Town of Falmouth

there, accessible, find-able? To almost not find a two inch contract that’s
only a decade old, I find it hard to believe that we’re going to rest the
protection of 200 some-odd properties on the potential of finding
documents that are more than 50 years old. Thank you.
THE MODERATOR: Okay. Gentleman to my right. Yes, Mr.
Medeiros. If you can use that, yes.
MR. MEDEIROS: Hi, my name’s Kenneth Medeiros. I’m a
member of the Planning Board, and I’m here specifically to talk about this
article. There’s been a lot of confusion, I think, thrown out about this. This
is pretty simple. This Article is only here to restore the property rights of
230-plus homeowners. What has happened is a judge said, just like Mr.
Sherman got up and said, took their rights away. These people and
properties have paid taxes since 1926 on these homes. What this is
saying is that they now have rights just like anybody else in this room that
owns a house in this town.
This is not about condominiums. It’s not about affordable
housing. I think it’s getting spun-up about that, but I want Town Meeting
Members to know that this is purely and completely only for those 230
people. It’s to give them the rights, just like you, so you can get a
mortgage, so you can sell your property, or you can transfer your property
to your children.
What this has said is it’s illegal. So that also means – think
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