Land dispute brewing between state and Meriden homeowner NBC Connecticut [Video]

A prominent Meriden developer thinks he has the solution to a land dispute between his family and the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection.

Salvatore “Sam” Carabetta is looking to buy 2.7 acres of a state park in Berlin that abuts his home, which is just across the town line in Meriden.

Opponents say the conveyance would set a bad precedent because, in their view, Carabetta’s looking to get around state laws against encroaching onto preserved land.

“It’s not OK to trespass or otherwise encroach on land that has been set aside,” Connecticut Land Conservation Council Executive Director Amy Blaymore Peterson said.

DEEP said the dispute goes back to December 2022, when a member of the public notified that Carabetta’s family had encroached from their Meriden property onto a nearly 50-acre state park in Berlin.

DEEP and Carabetta have since been involved in back-and-forth that has not been resolved.

Carabetta …