The Lyme Town Council is poised to adopt changes to the town’s comprehensive plan
These changes are geared toward restricting industrial wind development
and are based on the results of the recent wind development survey, which showed 64 percent of the 1,621 respondents opposed turbines while 35 percent supported them.
The proposed changes will be drafted by the Planning Board and are scheduled to be completed by November 9, 2011 this deadline was spurred by Councilman Warren A. Johnson, whose term expires at the end of the year.
“I would like to get a plan moving so I can vote on it before I leave office,” he said.
Supervisor Scott G. Aubertine continues to argue against a ban, saying a portion of the responses, those from seasonal residents, should be excluded.
“Unless seasonal residents claim their summer residence as their primary residence or vote here, I do not think they should have an equal say in the polices and rules that the year-round residents have to live under,” he said Wednesday night. “Legally, you can claim voting rights in one jurisdiction.
If you choose to move your registration here, fine, but you can lose exemptions back home.”
Aubertine continues to use the scare tactic of losing the star exemption as a sledge hammer to prevent residents from voting where they stand to lose the most .
Jefferson’s Leaning Left has posted detailed information about the Star exemption link here to read it.
Recently Scott Aubertine posted an open letter to the community on his website
Aubertine’s letter was a testament to his bigotry. Supervisor Aubertine believes that certain people are entitled because it is their birthright. Additionally, he believes that his friends deserve privileged status.
Read Supervisor Aubertine's letter here at this link.
After Aubertine posted his letter, the Town Council received letters from the community admonishing Aubertine . Wednesday night Shirley Ann Parker, Point Salubrious, spoke about Supervisor Aubertine’s conduct.
“I wonder if he was elected to represent all the people of Lyme or just a select few plus himself,” she said. “If the summer people are so insignificant, perhaps we should just pay taxes for those months.”
Mr. Aubertine said he would look at the results with Mr. Carr.
“We will be reviewing the wind survey results of the primary residents,” Mr. Aubertine said. “I will abide by those desires.”
“I disagree with your philosophy,” Mr. Johnson said. “All taxpayers are equal. I don’t want to see this government go back to a ‘good ol’ boy’ government.”
Councilman Daniel J. Villa said he had talked with Mr. Carr about the results.
“735 surveys were attributed to year-round residents and 60 percent were ‘no’s,’” Mr. Villa said. “The results were the same.”
Source Watertown Daily Times(WDT) news article by Nancy Madsen.
To read full WDT article link here
4 comments:
If Supv Aubertine has a problem with the responses to his survey, he should have decided whom to send them to a long time ago. Whether this taxpayer or that voter has an equal voice is arguable, but not after the survey results are in and tallied.
Aubertine's "flaw" in this case is a nostalgia for the Good Old Days in the town where he grew up.
The towns of lyme & Cape have more than their fair share of scumbags
2:34,
I know what you mean.
But I do quibble with your choice of words. This goes way beyond "nostalgia." All of us are nostalgic in some ways for simpler times not marked by any serious in-fighting or many of today's complexities and demands.
Nostalgia for a time when, for example, certain citizens in this country had to ride in the back of the bus or use seperate water fountains is not nostalgia. Nostalgia is a natural and benign emotion that does not come at the expense of others. Hell -- I'm nostalgic about Yogi Berra.
What Mr. Aubertine suffers from is not nostalgia; it is something far more insidious.
Want some "nostalgia". Bring back the fishing industry for real fishermen.Bring back the old Hotel. bring back the diners. Bring back common decency. All of thise things have already been destroyed by people such as Aubertine and the Masons. Manipulating everyone else with promises of riches. Riches at the expense of those they can't exploit beyond taxes and some sinister plot to deny them equal representation in a town that needs their tax dollars. They all expect to get those streets of gold from the National Grid. Ask yourself how many times you wish Niagara Mohawk and other "utilities" were regulated again. Those who work for the governments forgot who they reall work for a long time ago. Back when you could get a smile and a decent cup of coffee somewhere other than a national chain along the tourist trap highways. If people like Aubertine get their way, these towns will become ghost towns worse than they already are. No families, no kids, and no need for schools or "PILOT" programs , or useless appendages.
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