From: 	Josh Benthien <josh@northlandus.com>
To:	Helen Donaldson <HCD@portlandmaine.gov>
CC:	Rex Bell <rex@northlandus.com>
Date: 	1/21/2016 11:43 AM
Subject: 	Thank you!!
Attachments:	Kennebec Street - City of portland sites.pdf

Nell ‑

We just wanted to send our thanks once again for all your work in getting the elks zone change moved through the many stages and ultimately approved.  We certainly didn't anticipate this being so difficult and realize that the time and energy spent on your end was considerable.  So thank you!  Now onto the hard work of the site plan and master planning process :)

In marginal way news ‑ andy is going to circulate refined visuals of the various options that we are hoping can lead to one more sit down with Jeff Levine where we would like to include Enterprise and the USPS so that they can express their comments/concerns over the different options.  One thing I wanted to share was regarding the two lots on Kennebec that are currently used by DPW.  For some reason I thought I recalled during one of our conversations that those lots weren't controlled by the city, so our proposal to locate the trail on the south side of Kennebec was not as easily done as we had presumed.  In any case, we did some digging as the owner of record per the tax assessor database was listed as the State of Maine for both 158 and 178 Kennebec.  It turns out (and this may not be news to you, but I thought I was share it just in case it was helpful), that those two parcels were transferred to the city back in 2005.  I attach the deed from the registry in case that is helpful at all.  I realize that there may be other complications related to putting the trail on that side of the street including DPW needs, but just wanted to clear up any misconceptions regarding ownership that may arise from viewing the assessor website.

In any case, thanks for all you've done for us in the last year an a half.  I hope we can get some easier projects to work on together this year!

Josh

Josh Benthien
Partner
Northland Enterprises
207.780.0223 (office)
207.321.9741 (cell)