
Now children, listen to your Uncle Pete
I took Greenwich Time at its word (I know, silly me) and, in the belief that the “substantial improvement” item was not going to be discussed, took the night off. That may have been unwise, because today the GT merely says that the matter was “going to be discussed after press time”. Sorry about that.
(One guy who did attend, briefly, was former Cos Cob resident and current First Selectman Peter Tesei – pressure getting to you Peter? He stopped by to lecture the crowd on the importance of amending our zoning code, but then, wisely, fled.)
On the other hand, the first item up for discussion, the P&Z’s master plan to redesign Cos Cob, met with much opposition. Peter Berg had the best line; nice job, Peter.
Notably, the Cos Cob Neighborhood Association did not endorse the Neighborhood Plan, with association director and RTM Land Use Committee Chair Peter Berg asking for another round of edits and a new public hearing. He alleged important inaccuracies in demographics, citing a statistic that the population of Cos Cob had declined in recent years.
“The only time in recorded history when Cos Cob’s population dropped was when Dutch soldiers massacred 500 Native Americans, and that was in 1644,” Berg said.