Selectmen Hear More Updates on Bruce Freeman Rail Trail

The issue that dominated Town Meeting last year continued with several items last week.

  If there was one continuing news item Westford continued to see in 2012, it was the issue of parking along the Bruce Freeman Rail Trail. And while it's 2013, that didn't stop the Board of Selectmen from hearing more updates on the topic. Westford director of land use planning Angus Jennings presented an update on the Cresthaven parcel, a small piece of land on Acton Road along the trail just north of Carlisle Road. Since a subdivision approval in 1988, a cloud has been on the title of the property, which at one point was a potential location for a parking area near the trail. Jennings informed the board that issue at hand, whether the boundary of the property in its deed was the northern or southern stone wall on the property, had been …

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