My parents bought 9 acres in Kennebunkport almost 35 years ago with a plan. They built a small ranch on it and wanted to sell 7 acres to fund their retirement when they reached 65. At 63 a lobsterman illegally started a lobster processing plant next door. They fought the town but they gave him an exclusion. In the meantime my dad put the land on the market and but he was told it was now classified as wetlands. Some dink from the town came out in late March and saw standing water so the bottom line is my parents can not sell the land and lost more than half their retirement, even after having paid all the top tier taxes on the property year after year.
Is there any way they can appeal the classification? Perhaps have an independent professional examine the property to see if the dink from the town is right.
I would also wonder if the dink from the town is friends or related to the lobsterman, who might not want a house next to his plant.
“Some dink from the town came out in late March ... “
Just think, that same dink will OK that land for use when come frigging DC thief gets their hands on it for pennies on the dollar. Sickening, huh?
Kudos to SCOTUS for recognizing there’s a problem. But confiscating criminals’ assets is merely the tip of the iceberg of federal grabbiness.
Good grief, if standing water at any time means a property is wetland and cannot be sold then most of the area around me would be off the market, including much of my own eight acres. There are half million dollar or even more expensive homes around here that had a driveway running through foot deep water for much of September through January of 2018. Along the Waccamaw river many, many expensive houses had water flowing through them for weeks.