Planning Board Pulls a Classic.
By Jim Conley • Jan 25th, 2008 • Email This Post to a Friend •
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The Brookline Planning Board has rejected the Coolidge Corner District Plan, the result of 15 months’ work of the neighborhood-based Coolidge Corner District Planning Council.
Which is really funny because I once wrote (in A TAB column) that the Town’s Comprehensive Plan was nothing more than an several hundred thousand dollar dust collector. See, that plan provides (on page 32) that: “Each District Plan would be adopted by the Planning Board as an integral part of the Comprehensive Plan and used in development review and other planning processes.”
Here’s the memo outlining the planning board’s concerns.
A number of people took the position that the Planning Board should negotiate any changes with the Coolidge Corner District Planning Council. The Board felt that it didn’t have the authority to “reconvene” the District Planning Council.
Members Kenneth Goldstein, Jerry Kampler and Linda Hamlin voted to reject the Council’s work, member Steven Heikin abstained and member Mark Zarillo was absent.
Yes folks that’s right, Kampler, whose company Classic Realty is papering Coolidge Corner with “space for lease” signs is determining whether local residents (who don’t stand to gain financially) should exercise planning control over their neighborhood.
Classic Brookline.
Jim Conley is publisher of On Brookline.
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