Exhibit F — Property Taxation, Restrictions, and Continuing Inability to Build
This exhibit documents the continuing taxation of Lot 2 while the Hale family has remained unable to complete residential construction because of unresolved wetland, habitat, and regulatory restrictions.
Lot 2, Pitcher Street, Montgomery, Massachusetts, has remained privately owned and subject to local property taxation throughout the Hale family’s ownership.
Carl Hale recalls receiving a Town of Montgomery tax bill almost immediately after financing for the property was approved.
Ownership of the property is recorded through the Hampden County Registry of Deeds.
For approximately 17 years, the Hale family has continued to own and pay taxes on Lot 2 while repeated attempts to construct a residence have not resulted in a completed home.
During significant portions of that history, the property was subject to cease-and-desist restrictions, habitat-related limitations, wetland review, and continuing uncertainty over the location and regulatory status of the wetland/resource areas affecting the parcel.
Project Locus is documenting the tax and property records together with the regulatory history so the financial and practical effect of those restrictions can be understood.
The issue is not simply that the property has been taxed. The question is how Lot 2 remained taxable as a residential parcel while the owner repeatedly encountered regulatory restrictions and unresolved wetland issues that prevented the family from completing a home.