The Bait and Switch, Planning Commission Style!

This is a reminder that there is a Manchester Planning Commission meeting this evening at the town hall board room beginning at 8 PM.  There are several interesting items on the agenda for this evening.  You can access it HERE.
 
As you can see from the agenda, they will be discussing the Tracey Road lawsuit, "interpretation" of 5.03 of the A/R zoning ordinance, and a new item, "Availability of documents used by Planning Commission during meetings for public viewing".  As many of you know, a very specific memo authored by Andrea Bibby of Carlisle/Wortman, which was referenced heavily in last month's meeting regarding the "interpretation" and proposed revisions of the A/R zoning, section 5.03, which prompted the Tracey Road lawsuit (in addition to the misconduct by several members of that planning commission), was committed to be made available to the public as part of the draft minutes.  Even though this was confirmed several times within the meeting and should be reflected in the meeting minutes, that document was not and has not been provided to the public.  That document provides new verbiage to open up Manchester's A/R zoning district to banquet halls, and will be expected to pass without a strong showing of opposition from the public.  It is vital that you be in attendance tonight, and bring several Manchester residents with you as a public show of opposition.

Lastly, next week's primary election on Tuesday, August 7th will be the election in which we choose a township supervisor.  Les Kopka is pushing very hard at the planning commission level to push these proposed ordinance changes through - without regard for public input or opinion - to accommodate the request of one private citizen.  It is vitally important that we have strong voter turnout for that primary, if only to elect change for Manchester in the township supervisor position.  Mark your calendars to vote and commit to getting others to the polls.