Milton to sell Broad Street parcels

Milton Town Council signed off on last-minute refinements to the lot lines for two Broad Street parcels it plans to put on the market.

The two parcels are located at 117 and 119 Broad St. They were part of the town’s recent purchase of a collection of parcels between Magnolia and Broad streets owned by the late Leah Betts. The listing will be run through the Nitan Soni Group, and while a price tag hasn’t been officially announced, Mayor John Collier said they would be in the neighborhood of $175,000 each. 

The town is planning to use the other parcels fronting Magnolia Street as the location of a new municipal complex with a police station and meeting space. The Broad Street parcels were never in the town’s vision, but were part of the overall package listed for sale by the Betts family. The two parcels have houses on them that are located in the historic district, and council members made it clear they did not want to tear the houses down or be landlords. 

However, prior to sale, the town needed to sort out the locations of the lot lines on the rear of the parcels and figure out what to do about a shared driveway between the two houses. 

Carlton Savage of Scaled Engineering said with the lot-line adjustments, 117 Broad St. would be a 4,526-square-foot lot and 119 Broad Street would be a 4,666-square-foot lot.

Savage said the next step is to get new deeds for both properties. He said the driveway mainly belongs to 119 Broad St. and leads to sheds in the backyards. Savage said the town could come up with more descriptive easements for potential buyers.

Under the new lot lines, both lots would be nonconforming. Collier said there are a few lots like this in town that are very narrow; there is only about 18 feet between the two lots. Town Solicitor Seth Thompson said that because the parcels are town-owned, there is no need to go to the board of adjustment for a variance for nonconforming lots.