Rehoboth Conservation Commission Accepts Pine Street Parcel, Orders Wetland Restoration at Star Lane

REHOBOTH -- May 12, 2026, Rehoboth Conservation Commission accepts a 25-acre Pine Street donation and sets a June 7 wetland restoration deadline at Star Lane. The commission unanimously voted to accept a parcel donation at 94 Pine Street from John Ferreira, comprising roughly 25 acres including approximately 8 acres of wetlands in a state-designated priority habitat for blue-spotted salamanders; the transfer still requires a town counsel title review. The board also tabled to May 26 a decision on whether to recommend the town exercise its right of first refusal on 23 acres at 208 Chestnut Street, listed at $100,000, after the property owner could not attend with an ASL interpreter. At 30 Star Lane, commission chair Bob Matern directed homeowners Mila Vashtimolesky and Jeff Leveron, who had cleared wetland shrubs past their limit of disturbance without filing, to reinstall erosion controls, remove jute matting from the resource area, and submit a public shrub-restoration plan by June 7, with commission member Matt Kershaw agreeing to guide plant species selection on site. Four NOI hearings were closed and orders of conditions issued, including for a new single-family home at 28 Buckland Drive and an amended NOI for an accessory building at 9 Linden Lane, sited 17 feet from vegetated wetlands.