Carabetta the subject of an enforcement action over family home
The state of Connecticut has filed an enforcement action against Salvatore Carabetta, the Carabetta Companies’ director of development and construction, over claims his family property is encroaching on a state park.
The action, filed by Attorney General William Tong, says that two of the LLCs controlling the Carabetta family homestead have created an “egregious illegal encroachment” on Lamentation Mountain state park on the border of Meriden and Berlin.
The LLCs control four parcels of land directly to the south of the state park. Because one of the parcels lacks street access, the state in 1984 granted a prior property owner a limited easement to install a gravel driveway through a section of Lamentation Mountain State Park.
The enforcement action alleges that since his family bought the property, Carabetta has illegally clearcut acres of state forest, and built numerous fixtures on state property, including an asphalt driveway, basketball court, two sheds, an animal shed, a drainage system with runoff into the state park, and a guest house.
Carabetta is also alleged to have taken additional measures to prevent public access to the state park lands, including padlocking the access road with large “Private No Trespassing” signs affixed to state park trees.
The action, filed in Hartford Superior Court, seeks a court order to restore Lamentation Mountain State Park to its original condition, as well damages up to five times the cost of restoration.
The action seeks to hold both the Meriden Homestead LLCs, as well as Salvatore Carabetta personally liable.
Last year Carabetta proposed buying a 2.7 acre parcel of park land via a state bill, as a way of resolving disputes over the property line, but the attempt was unsuccessful.
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