Selectmen on Monday voted to spend $27,665 of the casino preplanning funds on the Thompson Street Agricultural Heritage Corridor Study, Oliver Estate land appraisal and the rotary ring road geometry layout. The bulk of the money, $16,655, will go toward the Thompson Street study. Planning Director Ruth McCawley Geoffroy said Thompson Street, known for its agricultural landscape, is “a stones throw from the casino. This is ground zero,” said Geoffroy, adding the pressure “is intense” to turn the area into housing.
Geoffroy said residents on the street want to keep their farms and the planning department has been working “to retain the working agricultural lands and the rural character of Thompson Street and to preserve this historic landscape for the benefit of the entire town of Middleboro.”
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