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The Mitchell home, owned currently by Lorraine Doherty Mitchell has been in our family for almost 100 years. The
Woodbury’s were the original owners – and their current family members own and live in full time all of the properties
that abut our’s from the Sea St. side.
My grandfather, James Doherty, sold the plot of land (now 42 Woodbury) to his brother for a $1 and the bank required
my grandfather to give his brother an easement to Sea St. before they would give his brother a loa to build the home.
That original home was enlarged by the last owner to the size it is currently. The garage the current owners intend to
move however is original to the property and in questionable condition.
This is the front of the Mitchell home – our property extends to the strip of land on the opposite side of the driveway –
which is what this is a driveway not a road. The current owners had, through the realty agent asked my mother about
graveling the driveway – which had always just been a packed own dirt road – and she had emphatically said no. When
we were away from the property they did it anyway.
One of the reasons we objected to this was because we didn’t want cars coming down our driveway fast. I tried to
connect with the owner – who does not live on the property I discovered - to address the issue of graveling our property
without permission – and him and the individuals who are using the home – about the unsafe and unacceptable speeds
with which their cars come through our property (and the neighborhood). They also graveled to the left in front of the
house to allow for two cars to park…and where they are now proposing to create four more additional spaces where that
one car is parked in the picture.
The existing garage is seen in this photo and apparently they intend to move this to the front of their house where it will
end up only a few feet from their front stoop.