LIVERMORE — Selectpersons voted Thursday to continue winter maintenance on some roads and will ask voters to consider discontinuing maintenance on others for one year in June 2011.

All of the roads in question will be plowed and sanded this coming winter, town administrative assistant Kurt Schaub said Friday.

Selectmen held a public hearing last year on the proposed discontinuance of maintenance on several of these roads but the select board asked for more research.

Most of the roads only serve one residence, and could be considered driveways in some cases. Schaub said he is continuing legal research in some cases.

On Thursday they held a second public hearing.

“There was some very positive give and take between selectmen and owners during the hearing,” Schaub said. Any time you improve communication and understanding it is a help, he said.

Selectpersons voted to ask voters to discontinue maintenance on whatever the town’s interest is in an unnamed road that serves 7 Butterhill Road. That road came about because of construction to align Route 4 years ago, Schaub said.

Voters will also be asked to discontinue winter maintenance to an unnamed road that serves property at 298 Sanders Road, Schaub said.

Originally there was a road that extended from Sanders to Route 108 and connected with what is today Shackley Hill Road, he said. In 1933, residents voted to discontinue the portion of the road between Sanders Road and Shackley Hill with the exception of the existing road leading to the first farmhouse west of Sanders Road, he said. That portion of the road is what residents will act on in June.

Schaub is continuing legal research on an unnamed road that serve 453 Canton Road because as far as he can tell, he said, there is no evidence to show that this was a town road. It was plowed as a convenience years ago for a town employee, Schaub said.

Another public way, Nelson Road has been a town road for more than 150 years and the issue there was the town crew having difficulty turning around during the winter, Schaub said. The owners of the property agreed to keep clear a turnaround in that area, he said.

Selectpersons also agreed to have the town crew plow and maintain a section of Center Road serving property at 191 Maple Lane.

A portion of Center Road was discontinued to travel by voters in 1980, Schaub said. It allowed the town to discontinue maintenance of a middle section of the road but specifically stated that the end of Maple Lane to the Holt residence be maintained, he said.

The highway crew was under the impression that they had to back into the road and then plow forward, Schaub said.

The select board considered that dangerous and directed the highway foreman to have the road plowed just like they would plow any other road in town, he said. That means they will plow the road as they are going in and turn around and plow it again on the way out, he said.

The board also voted to continue winter maintenance on an unnamed road serving property at 88 Federal Road, which is also known as Route 4. It is a steep road and the highway crew was having trouble moving turning around plow trucks.

Schaub said he inspected the property and the owner of the property had made significant progress to make a turnaround area for the trucks.

During his research, he found that sometime between 1938 and 1948 the town was granted a right of way on the road. The 1938 deed does not have that reference but the 1948 deed does, he said.

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