Posted by Dennis Herrick on August 03, 2008 at 16:55:26:
First it was Chart/Graham Waste/CBI before the Plaistow Planning Board, trying to push the land-use envelope. Then it was Chart/Winfield Alloy and the definition of "recycle". This time it's Testa/Fabcon/Green Machine and the definition of "light industrial". Why oh why can't our Planning Board learn from past mistakes? Is it possible that the wrong people have been in charge for years and years? Oh they're very good at defining right down to the inch what rules we need to follow as residents, but when it comes to business and industry everything becomes very loosy-goosy. Why is this? Even after Robert Zukas and Michelle Curran were purged, rightly or wrongly, here we are right back where we started. Now we've got Larry "the handwringer" Gil and Merilyn "the schoolmarm" Senter over there as backups, a few characters that seem to be Absent-With-Out-Leave more often than they're in attendance and we can't forget the newbees, Selectman Gray and Peter Bealo. Everyone is moving around, but nothing is getting done. In the computer trade, this is what we jokingly refer to as "jump no-ops". It's now time to assign blame, get rid of a few people and reorganize the Board for the 21st century. This is not "your father's" Plaistow anymore. We need a Citizen Petition asking for ordinance changes to tighten activing in our industrial zones. The people need to act to break through this daisy chain of inaction in Planning. The board's not going to do it. Here's a juicy little tidbit out of the 24-Jun-2008 Selectman's Meeting.