Robbins Ave Resident said:

THE HOME RULE PETITION

Set forth below are draft provisions of a home rule petition that is consistent with the CPA. The home rule petition is divided into several sections. The draft provision is indented in bold after various explanatory comments, in some cases pointing out options that the town or city has in structuring the section, while still maintaining CPA consistency. Each community must decide which of these options or others it will include in its home rule petition in order to create structures and mechanisms that work best for its needs. Many other variations are possible within the given framework.

http://www.environmentalleague.org/Issues/Preservation/Homerule.htm

Yeah, but this home rule petition was done almost 7 or 8 years ago. Its already in place. We've already been paying that 2% tax for years.

The home rule petition they are talking about right now has do to with public/private road conversion.

Colleen Garry has come back with this . . .

“The assessment as far as I see it was under a “betterment” category under Chapter 80 of the Massachusetts General Laws. The June 2008 Town Meeting has requested I file a Home Rule petition relative to this and I am awaiting the certified copy of the Town Meeting Warrant and Town Meeting Vote of that Town Meeting. As the State Representative for Dracut, I am obligated to file the legislation as the Town's request.”

so Basically unless the actual cost of the “project” is wrong then we do not have a leg to stand on, thank you town of Dracut, for having a 6 Million dollar cushion and the new 2% increase for the CPA, it’s great to know we live in such a great community in these tough time with the recession and $4 a gal. gas, rising food cost. and don't forget the ever increasing Ma taxes.

Time is relative to me (Retired) 7 years is NEW, we do not need the CPA, why hoard money for “preservation” when we can't afford to buy gas, heat our homes, pay taxes . . . . I can't even sell my house because it has depreciated so much. Even one of the poorest state in the country (New Hampshire) treats there residents better than this . . . .

For an $814'000. road you would at least think they would fix the NEW “Sink Hole” during the last week of rain we had water Gushing out of 2 of them, making the holes bigger, we now have 4-5 sink holes on the sides of the road, 1 near 675 driveway, 1 in front of 650 curb-side, 2 near Wildwood, and I believe 1 more between 678 and 650 right side.

all the drains were spitting out water during the rains.