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<\/a>) The Brookfield Town Planning Board held a meeting June 26. The meeting’s primary purpose was to have been the gathering of input from this board for the Comprehensive Planning Committee regarding changes needed to the initial draft of the Comprehensive Plan.<\/p>\nThe Town Board has charged this committee with the duty of developing a comprehensive plan for the town. After many hours of research, discussion, consideration and re-edits, the initial plan has been done and submitted to the Planning Board and the Town Board for their review.<\/p>\n
The Planning Board stated the revisions it felt were necessary, and these changes in format will be made.<\/p>\n
From that point on, several “gentlemen” (visitors to the meeting, whom I am sure had been invited to attend) put forth their opinions of the reasons why there should be no comprehensive plan; then finger-pointing and accusations of lying “to us and to the public” were made against two members of the Planning Board.<\/p>\n
This was done by two other members of the board, with the full enjoyment of several of the “gentlemen” who were present.<\/p>\n
I’m ashamed of the actions of the members who did this. It was inexcusable! We were told, also at this meeting, that one of the people who is against the Comprehensive Plan has been speaking to people in the towns and distributing information which is NOT based in fact.<\/p>\n
I’m fearful that people will believe this material and make decisions based on it. I ask everyone who lives in Brookfield and who cares about their community to PLEASE contact a member of the Comprehensive Planning Committee to get “the other side of the story.”<\/p>\n
This comprehensive plan is important to this and to every [municipality] everywhere!<\/p>\n
I thank you.<\/p>\n
Karen Beehm, Co-Chairwoman, Town of Brookfield Comprehensive Planning Committee<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" To the Editor: (Brookfield, NY – July 2013) The Brookfield Town Planning Board held a meeting June 26. The meeting’s primary purpose was to have been the gathering of input from this board for the Comprehensive Planning Committee regarding changes needed to the initial draft of the Comprehensive Plan. The Town Board has charged this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-csg","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}