94- Planners Have No Free Time

Last week's Planning Board meeting was punctuated by members' comments about how long it took to review the Woodstock Commons project. My favorite one was when David Corbett announced with disgust that he had not read a novel in three years.

Allan Duane argued that a delay in moving the project forward is in itself a valid reason NOT to study a traffic impact.

Following Allan's logic, I guess the planning board should have not have bothered to study anything, since the cost of any investigation is time passing. Especially traffic issues.

This particular decision concerned an extra five seconds idling at Routes 375 and 212. For a town that has pledged to be carbon neutral in the coming decade, this was a very poor decision.