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Ralph Petrillo May 3, 2013 at 01:11 am
Well there is definitely more community disapproval with the current plans then there is support.
A…Read More possible suggestion for the developer may be to cut the plans from 120 units to 60 units with no more then 120 parking spaces . The community is worried about the proposed plan with the idea of adding 240 to 250 additional cars a day causing congestion with respect to traffic.The developer can set aside funds to pay for a daily rush hour bus to bring his new tenants to the trains to cut down on an increase in traffic. The developer to gain public approval should give up on any non access to private roads or it maybe in the interest of the community to make some of their roads which are currently public into private roads whereby no one heading to the golf course or the condominiums could cross these private roads thereby making access to the condominiums quite difficult.
As far as a gain in the tax base. with any development where there are no tax abatements, it may appear that tax revenues may increase , however it may turn out to be a zero sum game, where the additional revenue pays for new public sector costs that will come with this project from garbage, water service, police , education, and any and all other public sector costs.
With development it is better for the developer to become part of the community . Orienta has great characteristics. Many in this community would like the developer to search for the mean between the extremes with respect to development.
Allison May 2, 2013 at 10:39 pm
David ,
can you please explain how having a luxury condominium building increases the tax base?
Miss Mujihum April 12, 2013 at 02:22 am
The guy who wrote this propaganda is a ninny. You don't want plastic ? So, why can't the stores…Read More give you a PAPER shopping bag (of course 'Nanny' Christensen doesn't like those either)?? These stores are just looking to save money by NOT giving the customer ANY bag for a purchase. Well, they are going to lose customers to towns that do !! I love the way A&P is NOT MAKING AVAILABLE paper shopping bags for free ..... who do they think they are kidding. Bunch of cheapskates !!! This will bite you in the butt ..... people will just shop elsewhere. I know I will. I won't suffer for this town's stupidity.
Mamaroneck is going to loose a lot of business due to this foolishness !!! It's just a short hop to shop elsewhere and they will just shop in the next town; I know I will, it's 5 minutes down the road. Just watch how Mamaroneck's sales tax revenues drop like a stone due to people shopping elsewhere for their staple goods !!
Nice work guys, in a struggling economy you make it even worse for the town's merchants !!
Ralph Engel April 11, 2013 at 11:05 pm
Plastic shopping bags, as noted, do not come from nature, and wind up destroying nature.
Paper…Read More shopping bags, however, are totally different. They, too, can be reused, but they come from trees, which grow, and, once in a garbage dump, or even left other than where they should be left, they rot, and return to the nature from which they came.
What we need is for stores, restaurants, etc. to do what Trader Joe's does, meaning provide shopping bags, so that we can carry things, but provide only paper shopping bags.
Nicole Scarmeas May 9, 2013 at 03:37 pm
In response to Frank Vecchione, Animal Rights is one of the most important issues our country &…Read More our world faces. The EU banned seal fur trade, yet still, every year, the Canadian Government permits neanderthal-like men to crush cute Baby Seal Pup skulls with baseball bats. Even though it's not profitable, it happens. In South Dakota, the law can't charge you with a felony for being cruel & malicious to your pets. The pig "processors" pull the pig's teeth out with pliers weeks before the slaughter so they can't chew through the wire, Egg-laying hens are starved to manipulate the laying cycle & their beaks are broken off. In China, they skin animals alive.
Some people may not think those things are important because it's not happening to them, but it IS happening to a sentient, conscious, mind-of-a-5-year-old-human being.with emotions and pain sensory & it's important that that's discussed, as unpleasant as it is.
People talk about how graphic PETA is, but how is that different than the nightly news showing images of war and/or genocide?
Nicole Scarmeas May 9, 2013 at 03:34 pm
Kim, I'd like to say thank you to you for volunteering your time at the New Rochelle Humane Society.…Read More They very much do important work there, and it must be incredibly hard to work there, seeing all those innocent, precious animals every day that just need a loving home. It must be so tempting to bring all the animals home.
Thank you to Michael Woyton & Patch for consistently reporting on these animals. They need our awareness & help. I can't believe that people still move without their pets, or get rid of them because someone is "allergic."
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