Hey Rising:
In your last comments to me, you wrote, “I've never had a problem with someone expressing their opinion, but, if I think someone's opinion is idiotic, I will probably let them know.” And later, you state,” I'd be willing to listen to what you have to say about this, but…
Your condescending tone and word choice of “pisser” and “idiot and idiotic” can only mean to me that your willingness to listen is only based on whether someone sees it your way.
You are obviously pro development at all costs, seeing only the revenue stream that comes to the town and profit to special interests, while ignoring impacts to the community; the same impacts you yap about with residential development.
You tell me to forget about the Wal-Mart developer, yet if he and the town had not played whores for the Wal-Mart, other businesses could have been operating on that site years ago and bringing tax dollars to the town. As a matter of fact, the Kohl’s wanted to be on this site, but they were blown off by the developer as he continued to whore for Wal-Mart. The Kphl’s would have been just fine.
Yes, I am a Wal-Mart non-supporter, and became more so when I watched Wal-Mart sit on the sideline and watch the whores fight for them. For the first two years that the project was being reviewed, neither the town or project sponsor would owe up that the major tenant was going to be a Wal-Mart – because they knew there was going to be controversy.
Unlike “Bob the Builder” Giza who would sell this town out for more tax dollars and tells everyone that “everyone I know wants a Wal-Mart”, everyone I know doesn’t want this pond scum in town.
That’s my opinion, get it! And that’s the last of it on this thread!
Back to Summerfield Farms.
The DEC is in the process of promulgating Wetland LA-17 as a state jurisdictional wetland. If that happens, streets in Summerfield Farms may lie within this wetland and some of the remaining undeveloped land. The DEC would be looking at the delineation different from the Corps.
Unlike the Corps, the DEC would consider wetlands within 50 feet of each other, and with a connecting ditch, stream or point source as being connected – unlike the Corps where those wetlands would be considered “isolated” by the federal agency and able to be filled in. Since the SWANC decision, the Corps, under the Bush administration, has become environmental weak in protecting wetlands.
The DEC has become more involved in what’s going on in Windsor Ridge and has forced the project sponsor to make numerous concept changes – and is not done yet. It’s about time some regulatory agency got some balls!
Oh, by the way Rising, do you attend public hearings and fight for public best interests, or just show up when a commercial enterprise is about to be approved?
pudge