Thursday, May 28, 2009

Fleetwood's Cruel Borough Council

Our attorney John Muir and myself (Lisa of Fleetwood Pizza), attended the monthly borough council meeting this month. The following is what went on.
For about 1 hour the council sat repeating that they thought the Redevelopment Authority was working with us all this time. "It's been over a year since anyone has contacted us or our attorney." They say the builder of the old Tannery site is still planning to build his strip mall. The when is completely up in the air!
It was however interesting that council member Joseph W. Kuzmann who originally recused himself from the vote on this project due to the fact that he owns the other building which could have been considered as well to create this walkway. He spent half the time we were there discussing the same thing over and over...The burned out building that is across the street from us, was supposed to be offered to us in a fixed state. Now, there really isn't any commercial space available on Main Street. Therefore relocating us in a means not inconveniencing us too much seems out of the question now. Yet they still insist on the need for this strip mall to have it’s own personal walkway in the middle of the block, just because they can, even if it hurts innocent families and what they built their lives on. It’s arbitrary to take away a business that works and replace it with a dead plot of space to walk on.

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