Alna tree house issue nears a close
Alna is billing a Dock Road woman after town officials said she worked off about 20 percent of the $500 she could have pared from selectmen’s $1,000 fine.
Lisa Packard paid $500 and selectmen had said community service at $18 an hour could cover the rest. The board set a November deadline; Packard has put in six hours, enough to knock the remaining $500 owed down to $392, Town Clerk Amy Warner told the board Dec. 16.
Officials drew up a letter calling on Packard to pay it by Jan. 16.
The fine followed a series of activities that the town’s planning and select boards and Code Enforcement Officer Stan Waltz said should not have happened at 91 Dock Road. A man staying in a cabin there was building a tree house for his children who lived nearby, Packard has said. But officials said the tree house’s nearness to the Sheepscot River broke shoreland rules; and the man’s stay in the cabin broke a court order imposed on the property years before Packard bought it in 2014, officials said.
She has said she didn’t know about the court order.
Packard’s six hours of community service included weeding at the town office; scraping and painting the Alna Meetinghouse steps, and helping clean the meetinghouse, Warner said.
A prior board of selectmen passed the fine in a split vote in January. Packard has had almost a year to complete the community service work, Second Selectman Melissa Spinney said.
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