Accept Nottingham's
Old Roads
Click here for the presentation delivered to the Board of Selectmen on October 29, 2022
about the Town's new effort to re-impose the road standards the voters recinded
in 2021 Warrant Article #20.
Thank you Nottingham voters! We won!
In the June 8, 2021 Nottingham, NH Town Election please vote YES
on the following Warrant Articles:
Article #19
To see if the Town will vote to accept Barderry Lane, Beach Head Road, Brustle Road,
Cahill Lane, Cove Road, Dolloff Dam Road, Indian Run, Jampsa Trail, Lamprey Drive,
Meindl Road, Meindl Road East, Sach's Road, Seaman's Point Road, Shore Drive, South Road (end of Mooers),
Tuckaway Shores Road, and White's Grove Road in the Town of Nottingham as town roads.
The Town has been maintaining these roads for decades. With this acceptance, these
roads will be transferred to the Town of Nottingham, NH as Class V roads as is.
Article #20
To see if the Town will vote to rescind the Minimum Design Standards for Town Roads
that the Nottingham Select Board put into place on December 7, 2020.
Why Vote Yes?
Since the 1990s the Town's responsibility for maintaining these roads has been disputed.
When the roads were built, current distinctions between private and public roads did not
exist like they do now. Recently, by a bare one-vote majority, the Board of Selectmen voted
to end Nottingham's half-century-old practice of maintaining these roads, resulting in a
lawsuit against the Town from the citizens who were being deprived of public services to
which they were legally entitled. Based on NH statue law and legal precedents, particularly
the result of a similar case in Derry, NH, the Town long ago implicitly accepted these as legal
Town roads for which the Town has an ongoing responsibility for maintenance. As it seems highly
likely that the Town will lose in court like Derry did - after wasting probably over $100,000 more of
taxpayer's money on lawyers - it's time for Nottingham's voters to intervene to officially accept
these roads and thus ending the lawsuit and further dispute. It is the right thing to do for our
fellow citizens, and it is what the court will likely say the Town should have done decades ago.
More on why you should vote YES.
Discover the history of the camp roads.
See Frequently Asked Questions.
Why the fearmongering about future road improvement expenses is implausible.
A rebuttal to Selectman Dumas' first personal statement in opposition to Warrant Articles #19 & #20.
A rebuttal to Selectman Dumas' critique of this website.
A rebuttal to Selectman Dumas' third personal statement in opposition to Warrant Articles #19 & #20.
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