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A Group of Opponents to the 24 St. Lawrence Street Project With Their Attorney.
Late this evening the planning board unanimously gave the green light for the construction of a five unit condo at 24 St. Lawrence on Munjoy HIll.
It’s been a controversial matter because neighbors have long targeted this old home and made it into their punching bag. This old home gave neighbors an opportunity to unload lots of anger onto this unsuspecting victim.
Do you know what a broken record sounds like? If you don’t, the noise is obnoxious. The noise coming from those who threatened lawsuits, moaned and whined at the planning board tonight and at other past public meetings sounded as obnoxious as a broken record. Life is tough sometimes.
Some of these opponents were so offensive in their presentations, the board member vice chairman asked them to show “respect” for the planning board.
Specifically, Peter Murray went on and on beyond his allotted three minutes in a dramatic monologue forcing the same board member to ask him to stop speaking, repeatedly. Murray, of Murray, Plumb and Murray, disregarded the board’s request in obnoxious fashion – to the point that this blogger wondered if someone would be needed to remove him from the podium? Want more examples of the rude behavior of this group?
“This meets the standards of the city,” said board member and attorney David Silk. As he has said on other occasions, the planning board doesn’t make its decisions based on polls or which way the wind is blowing. Decisions are based on whether or not they meet the requirements of the Comprehensive Plan, Silk has said at previous planning board meetings. In other words, the Comprehensive Plan does not provide exemptions for rudeness, whining and threatening to bring a lawsuit if one does not get his way.
To quote a favorite poet, Robert Frost, – “Retaining Walls Make Good Neighbors.
(note: Gail Michaels, please feel free to start-up your own blog if you don’t like mine).
I don’t blame the neighbors. If I were one, I’d be there as well. It’s still disgraceful and a travesty to th neighborhood. Hopefully, there are one of the last allowed to desecrate the neighborhood.
Your snide comments are disgraceful. You show no respect for your neighbors, unless they agree with you, that is. If you fancy yourself a spokesperson for Munjoy, you fail miserably at that job.
Gail, first, I don’t live on Munjoy Hill anymore. You are not my neighbors. Every meeting I’ve attended where this group has spoken it has been “disrespectful” toward the planning board and the people whose homes you are protesting. I think your behavior has been “disgraceful”. Even the vice chair of the board had to ask your group to “respect” the planning board at this meeting. For example Peter Murray kept on talking and talking and had to be told numerous times that his time was up and he kept going and going to the point I wondered if someone would be needed to remove him from the podium. The first public meeting that I attended back at the East End Community School, the behavior toward some of your group toward the home owners was so rude that I was very embarrassed for them and ashamed of their behavior. I have never said that I “represent” anyone at all. I don’t take polls and check which way the wind is blowing before I write a post. I am not a membership organization like the Munjoy Hill Neighborhood Organization is. Want more examples of your friends disrectpful behavior at these meetings? There are many of them. Carol
Update your Web site then. It says you are a Munjoy Hill resident. Maybe you should turn your blog over to somebody who is capable of providing a fair and balanced view of issues that affect everyone there.
People whose lives are going to be directly impacted- negatively- deserve to be heard. They should not be shushed or limited to an unreasonably short period of time. If some appeared rude to you, I understand the reaction of people who feel powerless against money and greed. Attacking these people who love their homes, their neighborhood, and their city is uncalled for. They speak for a lot of other people who are saddened and fed up by what is happening to their beloved city.
By the way, I watched the entirety of the most recent hearing and I did not see rudeness and disrespect. I saw frustration. I saw hurt and pain. I saw worry. I saw fear. I thought that under the circumstances people generally did a very good job of containing those emotions. This is not some generic issue that might possibly have an impact on people some day. This will effect them very directly for the rest of their lives.