Rural Massachusetts towns paid thousands less per acre than wealthier communities for state-owned land, report reveals
Rural Massachusetts towns paid thousands less per acre than wealthier communities for state-owned land, report reveals Updated Dec 10, 2020; Savoy, a town of under 700 in Berkshire County, has 11,924 acres of land it can’t put on the tax property rolls because it’s state-owned, including the Savoy Mountain State Forest. The town gets close to $80,000 a year for the state-owned land, less than it would if the land were on the property rolls. Yet Plymouth, a coastal town south of Boston, gets nearly nine times that amount for roughly the same amount of state-owned land. Plymouth gets more ...
Source: masslive.com