“We have a copy of the affordable housing grant for 600Waterbury-type
project houses that Gormley is submitting.”
Mr. DeAngelis appears to be distorting the facts, again. Sources have indicated that the meeting is to consider an application for a grant to study the feasibility of relocating the displaced families in the Triangle Blvd. section to a different location in Town. One area that may be considered is the Washington Dr. area. Another area that would be considered would be Straw Pond.
Obviously, the Washington Dr. area would be more advantageous, because it would allow Middlebury to recoup some of the $948,000 that may be lost from Mr. St. John’s subcontracting deal.
These “project houses” would be worth approximately $350,000 each. Not exactly what would be considered “project housing.” How many houses? Not 600. Approximately 71 families need to be relocated. These will not be new families. These are families that are already paying taxes and are now living in the crash zone of Oxford Airport.
Relocating these families to Washington Dr. would help alleviate two problems. What is the matter with studying the possibilities? Obviously, if it is not feasible, the project will not go forward.
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But I hope project housing goes behind Pats house
I have it on good authority that the state is planning an arterial bypass highway as an alternative to widening the mixmaster.
The north side of the arterial highway runs above Chase Avenue and then swings up just before Maggie McFlys, through the transfer station and the Straw Pond area.
The state figures that this relocation will cause White Avenue to become a slum, allowing federal money to pay for high density row houses right along the highway where Straw Pond was filled in.
Several strip shopping centers, including gun dealers, pawn shops, and exotic massage parlors are planned for the area between White Avenue and Yale.
The project is beyond the control of local Planning and Zoning.
Apparently you have'nt been drug tested in a while. The whole mix master project would'nt even start for at least twenty years. You will be long since retired and blowing your pension far, far away. I guess senior housing dosen't look so bad.
The people of the Triange Hills area have a right to be compensated for the value of thier homes like any other Middlebury neighborhood. It's not as highfalutin as White Ave., but the people deserve better.
I live in Triangle Hills and to be honest, I'd rather have a plane hit my house than have to listen to DeAngelis bitch if he was my neighbor. I can only hope that they don't move us over to the White Avenue or I may accidently throw bricks at him while he drives by on his chopper.
Don't ever call a Honda Motorcycle a chopper. Thats like calling a jetta a mans car. He just can't afford a real bike
I have heard that the EPA is now looking at Straw Pond as a potential Superfund site, and have targeted a certain individual on White Ave., who is rumoured to have dumped toxic waste behind his residence, in turn leaching it's way down hill into the pond. They also claim to want to investigate "toxic" electronic emissions from that same area of White Ave, rumoured to be contaminating the Internet. Hopefully that individual has saved enough of my tax dollars (their pension) to pay an attorney, after all the money spent on their FOI hearings, etc.
i bet his motorcycle has streamers on the handle bars and a cute little basket with a bell. ding ding!
First of all, thanks for the compliments. I'm always happy to be helping the fine citizens of Connecticut.
I checked further into the work being planned for Straw Pond. It took a while, but I found something interesting in the permits filed by the FAA.
It turns out that the FAA has gotten permits to move all of the Triangle Hills houses from the airport area to Straw Pond. As you know, there is not enough room in Straw Pond for all of those houses, so the houses are actually going up Maple Drive and will occupy the area that was formerly being developed as the Mary I. Johnson Park.
Tom Gormley gets all the credit for this. He secretly met with Pat Deangelis after Pat stated that none of the residents on White or Yale Avenues wanted the new park. Tom immediately put a stop to the building of the ball fields and soccer fields since they weren't wanted.
Then Tom had a brainstorm. He told Dan Norton to work with the Brookside corporation to develop Mary I. Johnson into a second Brookside. Tom told Dan to start trading rock crushers for equipment that could take Triangle Houses off their foundations and move them to new foundations near Straw Pond.
This is a win-win for everybody, no matter how you look at it.
Tom also arranged for the EPA to clean up all the oil and antifreeze that Deangelis dumped into Straw Pond. There isn't any Super Fund money available, but Tom arranged for the money to come from the Washington Drive payment that Ed St. John negotiated.
Once Straw Pond is cleaned up it will be turned into a private swimming area exclusively for the Triangle Hills residents.
One small wrinkle. To qualify for state and federal money for this project Tom needed to cede the property from Maple Drive through Yale Avenue to Waterbury. In an executive session last night Tom and Steve Savarese met with Mayor Jarjura to allow Waterbury to annex all the property.
Hope this information is helpful to you.
More Good News
A building permit was issued for a changing room for the swimmers at Straw Pond.
The changing room will be paid for by a matching grant from the Edward St. John Foundation for Humanity.
When asked about the matching grant, Doctor St. John stated that he was paying for half of the facility from his personal wealth. "I'm paying for the boys changing room and matching funds will pay for the girls changing room".
"I'll always be available to help the little boys."
I can't top that one
A Group Home For Mental Patients will be erected on the site formerly known as the Middlebury Department of Public Works and Transfer Station.
This announcement came immediately after the announcement by Mayor Jarjura of the annexation of the Straw Pond area of Middlebury.
Mayor Jarjura quickly dispelled protests that the group home would take in mental patients from Waterbury.
"There will be no Waterbury patients at this home."
"We have more than enough mental patients coming from White and Yale Avenue".
Mayor Jarjura added that convicted criminals, such as the Preserve Middlebury sign stealers, would not be allowed in the mental facility, "even though they are obviously morons".
have you seen what the jerk said about Copes rubbish removal. His bill is going up 30 dollars because we will not let Copes collect money and then dump for free in Middlebury anymore. this is what happens pat when you try to cut spending and cut taxes. You lose services that you had before. Stop your bitching because your the one who wanted services cut.
Mother Goose, where are you?
What is really comical is about how he boasts in one of his newest online diary entries about how once Gormley is kicked out, the new administration is going to end "personal vendettas"...because apparently that is what Patty D. is all about. I wonder if Pat has a MySpace.... I know good ol' Doc Saint John has one... he's friends with my little brother!
Where's The Protest!
Yesterday Pat had a huge headline urging all his followers to pack the Planning and Zoning meeting which was held last night. He apparently wanted to show that he still had the power to influence something in Middlebury.
Today, in an uncharasteristic move, Pat erased those huge headlines and replaced them with an attack on Gormley.
Hmmm? Why did Pat erase those headlines?
Because none of his lemmings attended P&Z last night. Not one. Not the two sign-stealing girls. Not the angry Brennan haters. Not the Campaign 2005 alumnae. Nope. Not a single one.
Does that mean nobody cares about the grant application for the affordable housing study? Sure they care. But they trust the Planning and Zoning Commission to do their job without a room full of brainwashed distractions.
Look behind you Pat. Nobody's following. The town has woken up to your lunacy.
Deangelis must have worked himself into a real lather with recent events. He has been desperately updating his web site with new attacks two and three times a day.
Here it is - a beautiful fall day and Deangelis should be out there riding his kiddie-hog. But instead he is down in the basement typing madly on his computer!
In his frenzy to stir up trouble he's lost his sense of dramatic pacing. The idea is to update every day or two and keep 'em eagerly waiting for the latest outrageous accusation. Do it too frequently and your desperation starts to show. It shows.
Here's a quote from "The Pit":
If you're going to have a conversation with Tom Gormley bring
a tape recorder and a lie detector kit. Tom sat in my kitchen and told me (
for two hours ) that he would NEVER allow any building down at Straw
Pond, especially AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
Yea, sure go talk to Tom about the budget next spring---if his
lips move, he's telling a lie.
My response is this: That was before Tom found out that Straw Pond was on the list of Superfund sites, due to the White Ave. Wizard dumping waste back there. Well, Pat, you asked for it.........Hopefully, once the annexation takes place, he'll be able to rant at Jarjura, who will probably handle it with a little less class than Tom, but probably more at Pat's level..........After all since when do state laws, like the one's Pat hides behind, really matter in Waterbury?
No Arrests Made at YMCA Anniversary Scuffle
Waterbury police refused to make arrests at a scuffle that broke out at the Palace Theater on Friday's 100th Anniversary of the Waterbury YMCA.
Jumping from the stage, John Rowland, dressed as the "Construction Worker", pulled a red faced Fran Brennan off a cowarding Pat Deangelis. Concert goers reported that Deangelis, along with ex Middlebury First Selectman Edward B St. John, seemed to be confused about the purpose of the YMCA Celebration. "I expected young men", remarked St. John. "Isn't that what the YMCA is all about?"
Deangelis demanded that police arrest Brennan, citing a law that deemed assaults on people over 60 years of age as a felony. "I'm a disabled elderly man and this man Brennan attacked me!", gasped Deangelis.
Lieutenant J. Paul Vance, also appearing in the YMCA show as the policeman, refused to make an arrest, remarking that "Brennan is 71 years old, it was a fair fight". Vance told reporters that many Palace theater audience members did not want him to break up the fight. "That Deangelis really needed his ass kicked", remarked a tall white haired gentleman with aviator glasses who refused to give his name. Dozens of others quickly agreed and some said that if anybody needed to be arrested it was St. John.
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