The Cheshire Town Post

~ by Craig Houghton - July 23, 2007 ~

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. 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.

~ by Craig Houghton - July 17, 2007 ~

This was passed along to me (it’s also posted in a comment over at TWL):

In the New Haven Register Today.

W/S will hold an informal meeting with the Inland Wetlands Commission at 7:30 in the Town Hall.

And, so was this cartoon. Look at em’ go!