Note: This is cross-posted over at the Cheshire Town Post.
Cartoon by Craig Houghton
And, in case you haven’t heard about the (surprise!) hotel, here’s a front-page Record Journal article on the subject.
Many thanks to Al Sanders for sending along the article and asking this question:
Many of the people that wanted the I/C zone to remain unchanged to allow for the creation of good jobs and high quality revenue asked many questions including, why did W/S want building heights up to 65 ft? All the questions that were asked at the P&Z meetings that P&Z didn’t answer we will now get the answers after the zone change has been made.
Do you think the reason for the height change should have been asked by the P&Z?
He’s right. Unfortunately, we’re going to continue to find these things out the hard way. As Alan Bisbort wrote in his Record Journal op-ed piece from last Saturday, this is a disaster and P&Z failed to protect us. As a semi-judicial board, how did they make this decision without bringing in some impartial smart-growth experts to respond to the W/S lobbyists?
Certain members of the town council, planning and zoning, and a handful of residents have sold us out. Unfortunately, the hotel ’shocker’ won’t be the last of the surprises conveniently left out of the W/S sales-pitch.
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