{"id":42891,"date":"2023-03-16T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-16T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelandmark.com\/?p=42891"},"modified":"2023-03-16T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-03-16T10:00:00","slug":"white-oak-land-gets-conservation-restriction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/2023\/03\/16\/white-oak-land-gets-conservation-restriction\/","title":{"rendered":"White Oak land gets conservation restriction"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"byline\"><b>By Ken Cleveland <\/b><br \/>\n        <i>Landmark Correspondent<\/i><\/div>\n<p>HOLDEN \u2014 A Conservation Restriction from the White Oak Land Conservation Society for over 100 acres of open space off Salisbury Street was approved by selectmen at their March 6 meeting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe town will hold a conservation restriction on that so it will never be developed,\u201d Scott Morrison of White Oaks said. The effort has been in the works for more than two years, with the town contributing $250,000 for acquiring the land, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Volunteers continue to work on the area, Morrison said, planning an eight-spot parking area and trails, although it is not yet open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe hope in the next couple months we will have trails, parking and get signs out there and have a grand opening,\u201d Morrison said.<\/p>\n<p>Selectmen also got an update on work by the Inclusive Access Playground Committee.<\/p>\n<p>Stephanie Klink said the group had originally focused on a playground, \u201cbut we want to create a park-like atmosphere.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Having gotten funding for design work, \u201cwe still have some challenges in determining a funding strategy,\u201d she said. \u201cThere are a lot of uncertainties, so we don\u2019t feel that it is the right timeline.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She said that because grant funding is anticipated, the supporters feel it is too early to request funding.<\/p>\n<p>Selectmen Chairman Anthony Renzoni said, \u201cThis will be a 30-year project; we should take the time to do it right. It will take a couple years to see something like this through and do it right.\u201d He said it would be an \u201call inclusive, multigenerational park, for every ability.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> HOLDEN \u2014 A Conservation Restriction from the White Oak Land Conservation Society for over 100 acres of open space off Salisbury Street was approved by selectmen at their March 6 meeting. \u201cThe town will hold a conservation restriction on that so it will never be developed,\u201d Scott Morrison of White Oaks said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":96545,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}