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Schiff Editorial: Is The OC Observer Correct?
Is Dover's Open Space Plan "Insanity?" Have officials "foundered,
fused and fumed about what to acquire and how much to spend?" Whose
fault is the open space fiasco and what, if anything can be done to
make it right?
Part I
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Richard Schiff Open Space Editorial:
Part I
Dear Observer Editor,
In your editorial of May 18th, you
ridicule township officials for turning the open space acquisition
program into a “joke” and an example of “insanity.”
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2003 Planning
Board Chair Juan Bellu |
Five Years Of Collusion
Between
Planning Boards And Developers
Five years of collusion between the
developers and the planning boards and the elected officials have led
to this disaster for the community.
Wealthy Republicans Got
The Money;
And Will Get More Soon
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Joseph
Citta |
The landowners are mostly wealthy
Republicans who have schools named after them while they are still
alive, or have their egos lubricated with bronze busts at the county
college.
Open space acquisitions have been
delayed for years so the properties could inflate in value and the
taxpayers robbed blind.
Delays Intentional -
Taxpayers Robbed Blind
The delays were intentional, to allow
much of the land to be sold for development and the remaining acreage
to inflate to astronomical prices.
Traffic is already at nightmare
proportions and getting even worse as this is written.
More Traffic Problems
From Rt 166 / Rt 37 Intersection
The plan to “revitalize” the
intersection of Rt. 166 and Rt. 37 is going to cause a traffic problem
that will be the straw that breaks the back of the camel.
Try to imagine those old malls, newly
full of people, trying to empty out on Rt. 37 and Rt. 166.
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The Profits Of Campaign Contributors
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Harvey York |
Efforts to buy land are designed to pad
the profits of campaign contributors and political cronies.
Dash The Hopes And
Dreams Of 10,000 Petitioners
Unfortunately, the Observer editorial is
correct: The new government, a product of the hopes and dreams of
10,000 petitioners, has become a pathetic failure after only 140 days,
but the open space fiasco is only one aspect of its disgrace.
Seven Dwarfs Are A
Disappointment
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Council President McGuckin |
Personally, I am embarrassed that I ever
endorsed the “Dover First” group.
The seven political dwarfs are a total
disappointment. They are lap dogs for greedy political bosses.
They jump to every command of their
leaders; they betray every promise they made to the public; they
abandon their oaths of office.
Boss Clement Or Boss
Gilmore? First 100 Days A Debacle
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GOP Chairman
George Gilmore |
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Boss Clement
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The orders come either from Boss Clement
or Boss Gilmore, or directly from the dictates of personal greed.
The widely heralded “program” for the
first 100 days in office was limited to hiring seventeen
politically-connected attorneys to waste a truckload of public funds -
and to promoting - and then back peddling - the debacle of the failed
“recreation” commission launched to give the “recreation”
commissioners free health benefits and the authority to sell open
space bonds without going through the township council.
The Mayor Has No
Program And No Focus
And the mayor, elected to focus on a
program for the new government that would “save millions of dollars,”
has no program and no plan and no focus. How pathetic.
Could Open Space Veto
Be A First Step Towards Coherence?
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Mayor Paul Brush |
How damaging to the public and the
public interest, although his decision as this is written to veto some
of the GOP council's more disorganized open space spending could, if
some real coherence follows, be a tiny first step in the construction
of a real program that the public could support.
Part II Of The Schiff Open Space Editorial
Will Publish 5/21/04
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