A step in the right direction

The Mayor has agreed to postpone the first Town Hall meeting to March 30, 7:30 pm in the Middle School auditorium. For details, tap this link:

https://www.tapinto.net/towns/chatham/sections/real-estate/articles/chatham-borough-postpones-monday-town-hall-on-post-office-plaza-sets-two-new-dates-of-wednesday-march-30-monday-april-4?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Chatham+News+Alert%3A+Chatham+Borough+Postpones+Monday+Town+Hall+on+Post+Office+Plaza%3B+Sets+Two+New+Dates+of+Wednesday%2C+March+30+%26+Monday%2C+April+4&utm_campaign=Chatham+News+Alert%3A+Chatham+Borough+Postpones+Monday+Town+Hall+on+Post+Office+Plaza%3B+Sets+Two+New+Dates+of+Wednesday%2C+March+30+++Monday%2C+April+4

That’s a good start.

Now it’s time for the Mayor to reveal the five options under consideration, so we can prepare for that Town Hall meeting. If his lawyer said it was ok to do that for the Monday 3/21 meeting, there’s no reason he can’t release the information on Monday 3/21.

The Mayor would be wise to include at least one good option – this one:

https://www.tapinto.net/towns/chatham/articles/let-s-do-the-right-thing-ce1dc053-a5c7-4cbf-805b-5f4f405864d1

That’s the perfect compliment to Fran Drew’s popular proposal:

Chatham residents are excited about this fresh idea for Post Office Plaza, conceived in 2020 by Fran Drew and Kristy Chmura and drawn by landscape architect Dimitry Levetsky, as a welcome alternative to the schemes proposed by the big Kushner developers in their bid for corporate welfare tax breaks at the expense of our little town.

https://chathamchoice.org/2021/07/

Unless we support it, we’re liable to wind up with something like this:

https://www.tapinto.net/towns/chatham/articles/it-s-time-for-smart-downtown-development-to-move-forward-in-chatham-borough-developers-post-office-plaza-design-update