The following changes were presented to Sharon Board of Selectmen on 6/10/08. These changes affect the development agreement negotiated between Brickstone and the Board of Selectmen related to the Brickstone Sharon Hills Project near Bay Road in Sharon MA.

1. Section 1.6 of the new Development Agreement requires the Town and the Conservation Commission to support the project as proposed.
   
   In other words, this section pre-empts the regulatory responsibilities of Town Boards, including the Conservation Commission, and forces them to pre-judge and approve the project before they have seen any of the details. This section can be read to mean that the Town Boards cannot deny any permit.
   
   
2. The developer will be exempt from any further zoning laws enacted by the Town of Sharon if the developer doesn't wish to follow Sharon's zoning requirements.
   
   
3. The Development Agreement has added a provision whereby four houses on Boulder Lane can tap into a water line that would be located 100 feet from the intersection of Bay Road and Boulder Lane. Each resident would still be responsible for bringing water to their individual houses. However, Brickstone is now given an option to either: 1) provide these water lines to Coach Lane and Boulder Lane, or 2) bring the water line to the project access road and Bay Road, and provide the Town of Sharon with $300,000 to construct its own waterway to Coach Lane and Boulder Lane. Because there is no guarantee that such a water line would cost $300,000 or less, and because the residents of Coach Lane and Boulder Lane have no way to force the Town to build such a water line, there is no longer any guarantee that these residents will receive Town water. Additionally, Bay Road is owned in its entirety in this location by the Town of Stoughton and there is no guarantee that Stoughton would issue permits for such a water line. The original Development Agreement has the water line coming through Brickstone's site, and Bay Road would not have been disturbed.
   
   
4. Brickstone is no longer obligated to restrict 36 acres on the site from further development. The new Development Agreement says that it is "intended" that 36 acres be preserved, but it is no longer required. Instead, Brickstone has to restrict 12 acres from development for each phase it completes. If it only builds two phases, it only has to restrict 24 acres rather than the original 36 acres.
   
   
5. Mountain Street will now be used for construction and site preparation access. The original Development Agreement stated that the Mountain Street entrance would be gated and used for emergency access only.
   
   
6. The new Development Agreement does not require Brickstone to obtain approval from the Town for moving structures more than 100 feet from the original plan. This means that the project could move anywhere on the 337-acre parcel.