SE Planning Board Recap 3/22/10
Posted by: “Lynne Eckardt” lynne.eckardt@gmail.com
Date: Wed Mar 24, 2010 7:31 am ((PDT))
Hi All,
Even though I still attend almost every Planning Board meeting I haven’t
tackled a recap for quite a while but this one is really too good or bad
(depending on your bent) to pass up.
Chairman LaPerch was in fine form having the patience of a toddler at
a Toys-R-Us clearance. And long time Planning Board member, Dan
Armstrong, had the unmitigated gall to claim he had no idea what the term
‘spot zoning’ means. Really, Dan? Really?
Of course while much has changed since the days of Chairman George Rohrman
much has remained the same. In general the Board has still never met a new
warehouse or old auto/tractor dealer/service center- (oops, make that
‘General Business’) it didn’t like. In fact the complex contortions made to
accommodate Brewster Honda make Houdini look like a piker. More on that
later.
On item 1 (‘Palumbo Sand and Gravel’) Peder Scott appeared to have won his
engineering degree in a raffle and Chairman LaPerch gave him an appropriate
and much needed dressing down. Baroody (scaled back to one lot) is finally
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