Opinion ID: 2674691
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Heading: The Town Engineer

Text: In January 2009, the Town Engineer gave Sherman a list of corrections to the 2008 Supplemental DEIS. As part of that list, the Town Engineer demanded final designs for water and sewer plants. But Sherman could not submit the final water and sewer designs until other aspects of the plan – like the number and location of the homes – were finalized. That, in turn, required preliminary approval, which is the very thing he was trying to obtain from the Town Engineer. A few months later, the Town appointed a new Town Engineer. The new appointee needed time to get up to speed on MareBrook. The Town billed Sherman for the expense of having the new Town Engineer review the entire MareBrook project, even though Sherman already paid for the first engineer to conduct that same review. The new Town Engineer had an entirely new set of questions, concerns, and items for Sherman to address. Despite that, ‐11‐ SHERMAN V. TOWN OF CHESTER for two years the new Town Engineer maintained his predecessor’s requirement regarding sewer and water plant designs.