Selectmen OK Loring conservation restriction
By Margaret Carroll-Bergman
I&M Staff Writer
The president of the United States will have exclusive permission to land his helicopter on Linda Loring’s 270-acre proeprty off Eel Point Road, under a conservation restriction approved by the Board of Selectmen last night associated with the Land Council’s purchase of the property’s development rights for $14,000,000.
Part of the money used to purchase the conservation restriction - which includes a condition allowing the construction of a helicopter pad - will come from the Land Council’s sale of 31.73 acres on Quidnet Road to Nantucket Land Bank for $3,000,000, a deal set to close next month. The remaining $11,000,000 was funded by over 1,500 private donations and community preservation funding.
Loring lives across the street from U.S. Senator John Kerry on Beacon Hill in Boston and had asked Kerry, when he was the 2004 Democratic presidential candidate, if he would be interested in having a helicopter pad on her Eel Point property if he became president.
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