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We Must Wait to do it Right
Dear Editor:
Albert Einstein is believed to have said: "There's a perfection when we get to the right order." It is this "right order" which the Comprehensive Plan Special Board has been attempting to find, aided by all of the interested parties in the Village. At stake is the intact village which we have inherited and which we will be passing on to our descendants.
The Village is too important to leave to chance and to the few who happen to be on the boards. Gateway to the Hudson Valley, it is so unique in history and environment that all of us are needed to participate with the Special Board and its Working Groups in developing a master plan to keep it that way. Our interested partiesstakeholders are numerous and varied: residents, businesses, builders and developers, clubs and organizations, museums and libraries, architects, landlords, renters, schools, government (federal, state, town, vil1hge, and county), churches and synagogue, waterfront, foundry and battlefields, senior citizens, young families, people with disabilities, visitors, and the Hudson Valley.
Our Village is a destination but what kind of destination is it? In order to ascertain this, the Special Board and its working boards have been meeting at regular intervals, and via email. The members have questions for the public. The burden is on all of us and the potential is enormous. All of us know that the Village, formerly a rough diamond, has been expertly hand-crafted a radiant jewel by the diamond-cutters of its personified environment and history. Just as radiant is the community which needs time to give full consideration to all of its development needs. Asked should be such questions: "What should be the common areas?" `Will development infringe on the rights of the residents?" "How do we handle public needs, such as a firehouse, and how, private?"
Ours is an awesome and wonderful task. Especially poignant is the fact that our Village is only one square mile and yet it means so much to us, both because we are a community and because we recognize that we are the custodians of what may well be the fullest intensity of American history and potential to be found in a small local government.
We must wait for the Special Board. We must wait for the "right order." We must wait to do it right. Please come to the Special Board's update to, and feedback from, the community, to be held on Sat., Oct. 20, from 3-5 p.m. at a location to be announced.
Phyllis L. Pustilnik
Cold Spring
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