Letter to the Editor: SG, move on to Plan B and win back the goodwill of the town’s residents

Monday, January 3, 2011
by Betty and Leonard Weitz

Thank you Mr. Greenstein for your expert professional analysis of the Chappaqua Crossing litigation issue in last Friday’s NewCastleNOW.org, “Letter to the Editor: “Venom”? Residents are entitled to raise concerns about Chappaqua Crossing.”  How fortunate it is for us to have an attorney give the community the benefit of his legal expertise.  It should be of great service to the Town Board in reaching its conclusions about the legal status of this application.

Summit Greenfield’s cantankerous letter is in response to the Town Board’s questions about issues that must be addressed by law and that Summit Greenfield cannot solve.  That they should demand an approval of their application forthwith is a dead giveaway. Since they cannot solve these issues, they are making one last desperate attempt to thwart the process because they know that the serious problems cited, if unsolved, preclude the residential rezoning of Chappaqua Crossing.  Summit Greenfield fully realizes this fact and their surly response is the last death paroxysm of an ill-advised venture.

In this last desperate attempt to salvage their lost cause, Summit Greenfield assumes the bizarre position that the Town Board, an official body, can and should ignore its legal and fiduciary responsibilities and collude with them, Summit Greenfield, to thwart the process and ignore the mandates of SEQRA and other authorities.

I would bet that even as they composed this strange letter they were already surveying Plan B, the development of the commercial use of this property, its true investment potential.  They wrote this letter in a last ditch attempt hoping against hope that they could leapfrog over these insoluble problems.  Clearly, stamping their feet in a petulant fit, claiming some sort of entitlement, will not make the problems with the residential development of the Chappaqua Crossing site disappear nor will it change the legal facts of the case.

Move on, Summit Greenfield, as you probably already have, to your Plan B, the commercial development of Chappaqua Crossing and try to win back the goodwill of the town.  Since so many CEOs and other corporate executives live here, they might still consider utilizing your commercial properties if you show a different face to the town.
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To view NCNOW’s archived articles and letters—in chronological order, newest to oldest—on Chappaqua Crossing and Summit Greenfield’s application for a zoning change, click HERE.

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