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Waterfront Development is Not Considered 'Good' by All
To the Editor:
Regrettably, the Village of Cold Spring has not been anywhere as fortunate as the "town of Cold Spring" - wherever that town may be. A project in this town was described in a Dec. 5, 2007 letter to the PCN&R editor.
In the letter, Mark Rettman, of Patterson, NY, told of the benefits which that "town of Cold Spring" received in having its waterfront developed by Guillaro/Unicom Contracting.
Unbelievably, a developer of that same name recently flogged our Village of Cold Spring's vitally historic and environmental waterfront with a real estate Disneyland, ten pseudo- Victorians, resulting in a seriously overbuilt half acre, a site located in a known flood plain.
It would appear that, in acknowledgment of the importance of the waterfront and of the sense that the site ideally should have been the common area, the developer in Cold Spring Village should not have placed the houses at such density that they breathe down residents' and visitors' necks, and that developer could have been expected to contribute a portion of the site for Village use.
If you consider this good development, Mr. Rettman, you should know that many of us, who live in the Village of Cold Spring, don't.
Phyl1is L. Pustilnik
Cold Spring Village
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