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Article: Judge's ruling gives town a hole-in-one; Land Court decision confirms first-refusal right to purchase golf course
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- The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA
- Article date:
- January 13, 2006
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The Patriot Ledger
A judge has ruled that the town can still purchase the Rockland
Golf Course, more than two years after a developer took it over with
the intent of building senior housing on half of it.
In his ruling, Land Court Judge Keith Long wrote that Hingham Land
LLC concealed from town officials its plans for the 74-acre golf
course, which is valued at $2.6 million. The town has first right to
buy the course because the property was taxed for years as recreation
land.
"It's pretty cut-and-dried," Selectmen Chairman Louis Valanzola
said. "They have to give proper notification to the town, which they
neglected to do. It's too bad that it took so long to come to
fruition."
Hingham Land ...