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Outside Looking In
By Perry White
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2009
When the Cape Vincent Zoning Board of Appeals affirmed Monday night its decision to require that Roger D. Alexander tear down the windmill he built on his property, it might as well have sent e-mails out to every lawyer in the county that a lawsuit is a-comin'.
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13 comments:
Alan Wood continues to serve as zoning enforcement officer ...WHY!
People just felt so bad for him that his personal $80,000 wind project was a lesson in "utility".
Alan Wood remains as zoning officer so that he may occasionally bring his role as a stand-up comic to our Town Board meetings.
His act is very amusing.
I had a zoning office tell me I had to allow him to see what was behind a fence on my property. I explained to him the plain view doctrine and told him to get off my property because he was trespassing. I never saw him again. Alan Wood is a criminal, even though conflict of interest is a misdemeanor, it's still a crime. I don't negotiate with criminals.
Cape Vincent needed a good house cleaning and, thus far, the voters have done their part. Now it is time for the new Town council to do their part. We need a zoning enforcement officer that:
1) actually enforces the zoning law without having to be forced to.
2) comes to Town Board meetings with a real report on what he has done each month to earn the $11,000salary.
3) thinks before he hands out incorrect permits that are simply wrong
4) actually penalizes those who blatantly refuse to abide by our zoning law (there are lots of them out there)because they know he will ignore certain situations.
We also need a zoning officer that knows how to read a tape measure.
If we are to demonstrate to an Article X siting panel that the Cape is the wrong place for Big Wind based (in part) on the physical beauty and other aesthetic qulaities we wish to preserve and further enhance, then we'd better start acting like we mean it - by enforcing the zoning we already have.
That little white sign attached to the Welcome to Cape Vincent sign at the Lyme border that says, "Zoning strictly enforced" is a pitiful joke.
The pic for this piece is an oldie of a young Alan Wood learning that in fifty years he will be thrown out of office over pinwheels.
$11,000.00 a year? Are you sure about that? If that is fact, we need to re-vamp what we are paying these punkin-heads.
November 26, 2011 1:41 PM,,, absolutely. Cape Vincent has lived in Bizzaro World too long. If the town wants to be run by third graders, that's fine. Just get some honest third graders.
3rd graders are capable of performing these duties during normal times, but on the arrival of big Investment Bankers with the blessing of the Protection Agencies, and our State and Federal Representatives the 3rd graders are very quickly "out or their league". With the flash of "Big Money" they quickly turn away from their teachers advice and refuse to listen to her. Lacking the experience of travel, education and maturity they are on their way, not to be stopped, and listen to only those who are also enlightened enough to see the "Big Money" also.
November 27, 2011 8:08 AM,,,It's the same approach to the military. Take malleable minds and mold them for a specific purpose. Weak minded and undereducated, they feel part of something they aren't. Society. One thing you learn as a professional and an adult is that there are only solutions in life. The old school good old boy system is dead, except in major politics. Chopping away at status quo starts at the bottom. The top is covered by much more powerful minds. Such as the Council on Foreign Relations. Maybe Cape Vincent needs its own think tank. Maybe this is it, hey?
Now the military haters come out of the woodwork. If you had spent one second in uniform you'd know that our finest high school grads and our most disciplined college graduates enter the military. It is clear that we are now in trouble when the population holds the military in disdain. We are your sheild, and we live for something greater than ourselves.
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