TIMES RECORD • June 27, 2024
Early this year, Joel Fitzpatrick of Wyley Enterprises purchased 24 acres in Brunswick, adjacent to Brunswick-Topsham Land Trust’s Crystal Springs Farm trails, Thornton Oaks retirement community and Arrowhead Drive. In early June, he hired a company to start logging parts of the land to make way for a potential development project slated for 2025. While the project is being done legally and up to code, according to town officials, it has raised concerns among neighbors about habitat fragmentation and increased potential for flooding. Residents are focused on monitoring development regulations to ensure wildlife buffers and water management plans are in place. They are also planning to call for possible “environmental reparations,” such as rewilding, stressing the responsibility of both the developer and the community.