Suck It Up Boys!!!

At the link below you can read an article in the WDT about Hester Chase and the new Cape Vincent zoning law revision process. 

Hester is on the CV Zoning Board of Appeals and in my opinion one of the very few people in CV govt that has any real backbone!

http://www.watertowndailytimes.com/article/20140824/NEWS03/140829376

Hester has a number of concerns about the zoning law revision and expressed those concerns to the town board in some detail.

According to this article two zoning officials Mr. Faulkinham and Mr. Brown who were on the zoning revision committee showed dissatisfaction and   left the meeting after the board decided against Faulkinham's and Brown's advice against a delay in the  public hearing on the law. 

Well that figures!!!

These two CV zoning geniuses were at the very heart of the solar zoning fiasco last summer that even swept the supervisor into a  very embarrassing zoning fiasco who had his own illegally approved solar project that he had to take down as a result.  This all made news several times in the WDT.

Why was that?  Because the zoning law that Brown and others had written was a mess when it came to solar energy zoning and it still is and in the end they could neither read it or apply it correctly.

And why was that? Because they had rushed the law, just like it  appears they are doing now and upset because the town board won't immediately pass the revision.

After last years solar zoning fiasco, that Ms. Chase had the guts to stand against to truly defend the zoning process and attempt to keep it credible, I suggested some of our zoning officials like Brown Faulknham, and Macsherry and others should be replaced.

Suck it up boys...the town board apparently doesn't agree with you on the timing of the zoning revision and public hearing.

Geee...maybe that is because you created such a zoning f#&*up last year that was splashed all over the front page of the WDT and created an extreme embarrassment for the town supervisor that they are a little gun shy about your advice.

These zoning guys like Faulknham and Brown should get a clue that zoning is run on competence...not arrogance!

The CV law is still a mess in a number of places, particularly the solar zoning regulations.

As for Hester Chase...she should run for town board.

I am also glad to see councilman John Byrne show a little spine and support a delay in the public hearing and to get more input.