Letter to the Editor Pressure to ‘have it all’ and increase building size at Merritt Residences is complicated by the fact that the Town has operated without a full-time Planner for six months, putting P&Z procedures and approvals at risk. Enforcement of the 60 odd conditions voted by the Commission during construction of Merritt depend on staff. Conflicting property lines, access to the cemetery in use for over 200 years now scheduled to be built on, heavy equipment located in setbacks designed to protect neighbors - all become issues without a Town Planner, a landscape plan, and missing F.A.R. information on P&Z forms. Has the much quoted ‘blessing’ of the project by the State Archaeologist been misrepresented as a first choice rather than an 11th hour arrangement between Karp Associate’s lawyer and Professor Jones? Going forward, let’s be reasonable and hope no more graves will be found during construction. In a memo to Town Planner, Steve Palmer, regarding digging at the burial ground in early 2017, the State Archaiologist stated: “I strongly feel that this potentially disruptive work should not be undertaken unless it is absolutely clear that the remaining portions of Parcel P will in fact be developed – though as I read conditions 22-24, they should not be. Based on a phone conversation I had had with my Attorney General contact, David Wrinn, encroachments into cemetery properties for non-cemetery uses are unlikely to stand up in Court.” Terry Spring Former Member, Historic District Commission, Bd. Of Selectmen, Town Council