OAT Onset All Together

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ONSET, MA October 28, 2018 Contact: Philip Schreffler, Esq. Eno, Martin, Donahue LLP, Lowell, MA 978-452-8902 dmartin@enomartin.com general mailbox TAXPAYERS SUE TO PROTECT PARKLAND AND THEIR RIGHTS Taxpayers in the Town of Wareham have filed a lawsuit in Plymouth County Superior Court to protect parkland in Onset decreed forever open and accessible to the public in a 1916 court decision and to stop the demolition of the coastal bluffs. The taxpayers seek an injunction as the Buzzards Bay Corporation imminent demolition of the building and the coastal bluffs. The lawsuit is over the town’s 99-year lease with the Buzzards Bay Coalition. The suit was filed against the town, the Coalition and David Warr, a Wareham resident who claimed an inherited right to assent to the lease. The plaintiffs support the proposed Onset Bay Center, to be located at the site of the current bathhouse sitting on Onset Beach. For the past few years, th...

 Dear Ms Healey,      It is quite clear that you have ignored all of the fine details of our complaints proving that what the Town of Wareham and the Buzzard's Bay Coalition did was illegal.  You appear to be concentrating on a bath house when the main complaint concerns the leasing of a portion of land dedicated to the public via the Massachusetts Supreme Court.      By allowing the Buzzard's Bay Coalition to lease any part of our dedicated land you are allowing the eventual takeover of our parks, bluffs and seashore. You are setting a precedent which will allow the private use of all of the dedicated land in the state.  The law clearly states that this cannot be done.  Dedicated land cannot be given way in bits and pieces. We do not pretend to be lawyers but the law regarding dedicated land is clearly spelled out in Dunphy vs the Commonwealth et al , which you are ignoring.  ...