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Ms. Brittany DiRienzo November 8, 2024
Conservation Administrator
Town of Yarmouth
1146 Route 28
South Yarmouth, MA 02664
Dear Ms. DiRienzo,
On behalf of the Native Land Conservancy, we respectfully ask that the Yarmouth Conservation
Commission review the attached Conservation Restriction (CR) at your November 21, 2024
meeting. We hope that the Conservation Commission will recommend town approval of this
Conservation Restriction by the Select Board.
The Rivero Conservation Restriction will permanently protect a 9.120-acre parcel of land along
Route 6A in Yarmouthport. The Native Land Conservancy received this property as a donation of
land from the Rivero family and the Yarmouth Conservation Trust has agreed to hold the
conservation restriction. The property is identified as an Indigenous Cultural Landscape that is part
of the Wampanoag ancestral homelands. The property also abuts 10.816 acres of conservation land
to the west, acquired by the Native Land Conservancy in 2020 that also has a conservation
restriction held by the Yarmouth Conservation Trust. Preserving this property will maintain its
many conservation benefits including maintaining the water quality within the Chase Garden
Creek estuary, protecting drinking water within a Zone II Wellhead protection area, and
maintaining critical habitat for threatened species.
The Conservation Restriction, included with this letter, has received approval for local signatures
from the Massachusetts EEA Division of Conservation Services. We are anticipating recording of
the Conservation Restriction by December 31, 2024. Please let me know if you have any questions.
We appreciate your consideration of recommending Select Board approval of this CR.
Sincerely,
Kat Garofoli
Land Protection Specialist
The Compact of Cape Cod Conservation Trusts, Inc.