7/8/1996 BOARD OF SELECTMEN Minutes

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THE BOSTON SUNDAY GLOBE. uit Jaws s S lif, e e plagu DEVELOPMENT . .............. Continued from Page 33 y beach club. "This resort h $r as been 3-:.x .run forprivilegedN� : ,:•,,: :;�:� b a m y ono ff Yom..• d fir° et r.r: :;;•�� of .Th ose days are v •�-: e o er. `y' fit' 'F"r y SFr .}tr s ,l yip .� fij''•f• - �: Vii• % f, Brawn ho : es to foreclose on the .. P rest of N -�;;�• .. , • :.f::, ew Seabury's commonly �- owned property within months.Once his coup is complete,he says,he will r d k a� p y to the resort and relax - •�v"F f;: :.. . Y aur move in ,:,t.:.:.; •':�A. � �,F its strict rules about everything from a � house foundations (no more than 6 { inches above grade) to golf carts S (only on the Blue Course and only yy� after 3 p.m.). His ascension appears inevitable, i a: x ,y`•r y. '1 i i�t 1�► ".idirr' � S l even though federal investigators �- •° have accused him of committing �� • ` 'fraud and perjury in his efforts to c�.oeE STAFF PHOTO BELL oRE�ruE take over New Seabury and another Southport was expected to Include 750 homes,but the developer ran debt-ridden Mashpee development. out of money and loo half-built homes have been left to decay. Burden's relatives launched New Seabury in 1962 as a new kind of ings and loan debacle. quire f urn, • community, "as precisely thought .Some believe the corporation Mashpee's attitude mirrors that out and as elegantly landscaped as a made matters worse in Mashpee., f the federal government: Its top Japanese garden." Burden, then 21, `T case is a hand grenade with priority is getting paid. was present at the start, and has the Pin Pulled," said Robert Carey,a "Chris has worked long and overseen its transformation from a private investigator for Southport, hard, and you hate to see him lose vast expanse of woodlands to a col- "There had to be pressure in high his bah „ . . lection of u ale subdivisions for re- places, because there is no rational baby, said Tom Fudala, the r ��. - town planner."But we have to think tarees and business peoplelike Patriexplanation for they way the govern- about the ' ment handled this. a bottom line.The other guy ots owner Robe��t Kraft. may be a sleaze but if he's a The growth ht6 not always been The trust corporation held a land y r sleaze smooth--in the 1970s,for instance,it sale in 1993, and Brown—the son of who can get something done over ground to a halt during legal battles a Hollywood movie mogul,developer there,that's fine with us." with the town and the wampanoag of the largest subdivision in Beverly tribe -- but it has been predictable, Hills—wan control of New Seabury and the neighborhood has main- and Southport's mortgages with a tamed a crafted feel. There have combined bid of$10.6 million.He put • been tensions between Burden and just $2.1 million down; taxpayers fi- New Seabury's.113 villages, but also nanced the rest with a cut-rate loan. an understanding about the develop- ment's future. Rules made to be broken? ` The sale was disappointing for y:^>•., Burden,who had hoped to work out ..�: 13� his own refinancing deal.Disappoint- I Mile ` ment turned to anger amid alle a- tions that Brown had violated confi- r ' •�•"�� dentiality laws to obtain information . N.GREAT about Southport before the bidding. = NECK RD. In a sworn affidavit, Brown de- �-� nied the charges. But Bonvie told a 2S W ` MASHPEE :X �� • trust corporation investigator that he had given Brown detailed finan- GREAT cial information and a Brown associ- �' NECK R ' .f � ate confirmed that the fu-m had FALMOUTH 'f°�- := p° broken the rules. } ::•�. T: Last year, the US Justice De- 28c.,•� z' z Partment began forfeiture roceed- VA.