Believe it or not I actually made a MISTAKE- oh my God can you people believe it–Ms Perfect made an error on her website! I was writing about the proposed zone text change to the Northend property near I-691 and I left out some words. I stated that the No Mall Signs that a resident I really admire had posted on his property would not have that much of an impact. I meant to say they might not have that much of an impact on Planning and Zoning, but this person should realize his signs stirred up a hornets nest is this town. This person really got some peoples blood pumping. I guess the night of the living dead is over in Cheshire for a while. People started talking and writing about it. Some even took it upon themselves to remove the signs. This person should realize that an impact was made in town. Cheshire woke up out of its “sleep” and started discussing this. Can you believe it, some people actually took time away from bashing me about the Police Commission idea to focus on this subject.

A lot of people said I should not have run the W/S Development video. But I wanted all sides. Remember I ran and will continue to run all sides. I went to Canton and filmed some of my own -video all around the Lifestyle Center, not just what you saw on their video. I went to Trumbull and filmed the traffic at Hawley Lane. I ran environmental impact studies.

I like the Lifestyle Center in Canton, I never said I liked it for here. I said before and will say again, we need to develop the old Ball and Socket factory. That would be a great lifestyle center. They could even incorporate some housing units into this building, like Bridgeport did with the old Reads Department store building. I am working on a project with my son in our spare time which will elaborate on my idea for the Ball and Socket factory. I hope my son finishes it before my 80th birthday! The property in the Northend I don’t feel is conducive to a lifestyle center. It is too close to Meriden Square and Waterbury Brass Mill Center. This would have been great 25 years ago, but not now. Plus there is the Historic Arch and massive amounts of wildlife that need to be protected. I think it is a little too much a little too late.

LET’S HEAR IT FOR THE MOANERS.

Yep, by the end of this week that is what I will be hearing. All of you moaning and groaning about getting a speeding ticket because of this “Slowdown Days” program. You will bitch and moan in your home or at the office or whatever about getting the ticket. “We need to do something,” etc. Well where were you when I was talking about the police commission? Out to lunch!! The Police Commission would not stop law enforcement- that is not its intention. And it is not just a bitch session either as some still think! I hear about it all the time. But good, that is what the intention of the Undergroundtownhall was and is. To annoy the people who need to be annoyed and inform the people who need to be informed. If our local paper would stop acting like the Soviet News Agency Tass maybe I would not have to do Undergroundtownhall. I like doing this anyway and I know some of you want to know who I think I am. The chair on the right hand side of God is empty! Oh now I will really hear it! Only kidding?

FYI- The Ordinance Committee of the Town Council is scheduled to meet Thursday, June 21 I am assuming in the Town Hall around 7 or 7:30 p.m, of course it will not be posted on Cheshirect.org website as usual, so I will have to call to find out. The purpose of the meeting is to expand the powers of the Public Safety Commission to hear complaints on a trial basis for six months. So if this goes into effect I hope people who have a complaint will go. I don’t know, how many people are going to go out in the public give their names and addresses and complain about the police? Who do they think they are me? I bet I’ll hear no came out over the six month period so that will be the end of that!!

Speaking of the Police which a lot of you think is my favorite topic but it is not–remember this is a PG-13 website—I found an interesting article in the New York Times on Friday, June 15th about–you guessed it! the NYPD’ s use of five different siren tones on their police cruisers. Apparently depending on traffic conditions the officers have the option of five different tones, ranging from an experimental “vibration” tone to the European high low tone and the yelp and wail.. To hear the tones go to: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/15/nyregion/15sirens.html