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Subject: Waterfront Meeting tonight at 6pm...

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Ned Depew

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Date Posted: 08:51:08 09/06/05 Tue

...at the Basilica Industria - just follow south front street past the train station parking lot till you see all the cars.

This is a chance to be in on the founding of an organization that seeks to provide citizen input in creating a plan for Waterfront and South Bay protection and development.

Do you have ideas about how the waterfront should be used and what it should look like? Or are you content to have "our leaders" spend more than $200,000 (that might have gone for better things) on the C. Butterworth Memorial Toilet Blockhouse?

Who designed that monstrosity? Who decided to put the TOILETS (for heaven's sake!) in a place of prominence as you enter and leave the park? What is that - "Welcome to Hudson's Waterfront, Don't Forget to Empty Your Bowels?" - not to mention that the place is locked up tighter than Fort Knox most of the time!

Was ANY citizen input invited or allowed? What about The Concrete Horror that passes as a "bandstand?" Ugly as sin, with some of the harshest and most conflicted acoutic properties imaginable.

Again - who designed this travesty? Who decided on concrete, rather than wood like the charming (but largely unused by order of the County) bandstand on the Couthouse lawn? Did anyone ask you what you wanted? Who was awarded the contracts for that work? What kind of profit margin did they make? Are the records available, or have they gone the way of those for the Shrimp Box?

You can be part of an effort to plan a citizen-friendly Waterfront, with balanced development of wildlife, recreational, and commercial resources. But you have to show up and do the work. 6pm at the B.I. I hope to see you there.

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