Nov 08 2009
Brian, I Hope You’re Wrong
On October 21, 2009 Brian Shields posted the following comments on his blog, The Mourning Constitution:
My Sussex County Council Representative, Mike Vincent, has been flying under the radar…much like how he was elected unopposed to a Freshman term. He is, though, supposedly the swing vote on this Lingo Creek/Townsend project on Kings Highway in Lewes.
I got news for you, folks. He is not the swing vote. Just take a look around Seaford. Seaford hasn’t met a development they didn’t like, and have about 5 half finished developments that were halted by the recession. Hell, I currently live in one. Seaford has a bunch of commercial plazas that are half filled, and one that is completely abandoned. They have a downtown business development zone that has failed to develop business.
Mike Vincent spent 8+ years on Seaford’s Planning and Zoning Commission before a two year stint on the City Council. He will vote yes for the Lingo Creek development, mark my words. ((Brian Shields, Partisan Criticism – Lingo Creek, The Mourning Constitution, October 2009))
Is Brian spot on or is Councilman Vincent truly using the Sussex County Council’s 60 day vote delay to study all the documentation concerning the Lingo-Townsend change of zone request? Brian makes a good case that Councilman Vincent’s relationships with the business community will sway his vote.
Facts, not friends, should be the basis for evaluating an action. Unfortunately, often you are judged by the friends you keep.
We hope Councilman Vincent will make the right decision based on the overwhelming evidence against the change of zone request and prove Brian wrong.
So do I.. but I feel the 60 day delay was not a stay of execution but a distraction. Christmas will have wrapped up and they will try to slip it in under the radar after we have had a full month of kids and family and dinners and shopping and credit card bills and so on to make up forget about a pithy little development.
You have convinced me about this development with the well recharge area argument. I wonder if there are ways around it, thinking some enterprising developer might figure out some kind of water runoff system that will somehow make up for a large percentage of impervious cover.