Be Alert all Amherst Residents!!
Incredible, desperate, how-low-can-you-go moves to garner support for the wrong project in the wrong location.
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The Comprehensive Master Plan IS the blueprint for development in Amherst. It was adopted in January 2007. It was studied and researched for several years. One of the stated visions of the plan, is that Amherst be renowned for its exceptional quality of life.
Isn’t it ironic that we are here, once again, discussing how this project, at this location is an assault on the quality of life of Amherst residents, living in over 1000 homes? Knowing, additionally, this number will increase dramatically because this development is just the beginning of a conversion into another commercial corridor? This is something our comprehensive plan repeatedly and specifically advised against for this section of our Town.
The Master Plan elaborates that the project area, in particular, is not to be used for commercial development… That the residential portions of maple road should be protected from further commercial development or redevelopment (section 3-16)
Some of the relevant violations are:
It is not consistent with surrounding land use or highway corridor.
It is not at a major intersection.
It is not in keeping with the neighborhood scale.
It creates numerous adverse environmental impacts on adjacent
land use.
The authors of our Master Plan recognized the problems involved in developing this area of our town or rezoning it and advised against it. Our own Amherst Planning Department understood the problems associated with rezoning this property and advised against it.
Our own Amherst Traffic Safety Board understood the safety problems associated with rezoning this property and advised against it. The neighborhood residents have said and to continue to say no to rezoning of this property to general business/commercial.
This entire proposal, including all environmental issues needs to be looked at comprehensively through clear eyes not through the prism of dollar signs and a developers spin.
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