Camp Fairy Tales

Steve’s Solecism

This week, STEVE SAID: “If you walk in the property, even in its bad condition now, you can envision an office park, a Crystal Run Healthcare, if you will, a college campus, I believe there is a future for that. It’s just getting the developer to either change his mind and present something that is more palatable to the two towns, but we are going to utilize that property. My plan is to open it up for different types of resources.”

Oops! Was that some kind of slip? Or is the County Executive promoting one medical group over the others? I bet Immediate Medical/Middletown Medical or Horizion Healthcare are annoyed with that statement! Off course there no behind-the-scenes deal going on here, so why did he say that?

STEVE SAID "Something like the Rock Hill Office Park is what I envision… (revenue from Chester's Industrial Park )"is how we have been able to keep a balanced budget and good ratings” The Chronicle 3-28-2013 E. Johnson

Camp LaGuardia has posed a problem from the day the County purchased the property. We are sure that there is no one in Chester and it’s environs that wanted to keep the VOA homeless shelter because of the impacts on the community, but there really was no follow through after it was purchased. There were issues such as trying to get the Town of Chester to provide sewer service for any potential development when Steve was Town Supervisor. In fact, there was a problem getting the Town of Chester and the Town of Blooming Grove to agree on anything regarding the site.

The Times Herald Record had a sensible commentary on the issue: from editorial thr 1-19-14:

THR SAID:“Neuhaus, as supervisor of the Town of Chester, is intimately familiar with all of the issues and the chances of any solutions. He has talked about creating a local development corporation, similar to the one Ulster County used to sell its county nursing home, (it seems like Steve sees an LDC as the solution to all  problems, what’s next? And LDC for the Sheriff’s department?) to move this forward. In Ulster, however, the LDC was the means to reach an end that already had been determined through debate and compromise.(Good point) Orange County needs to start from scratch with the two municipalities. If the leaders and the people who live there can agree on what they want on the property, what is the acceptable mix of commercial and residential development, then the present developer can either meet those expectations or clear the way for somebody new to come in who will.”

Back on the campaign trail STEVE SAID: "The project should be re-bid, It has languished for years because the developer wants high-density housing that will ultimately raise local property taxes." (referring to Mountco)

But Steve advocated for the Mountco project in 2008 when he was Chester Supervisor. He then began to favor more commercial and less residential use which evolved into commercial only. (Refer to article by C.Mckenna THR 9-20-13)

So now we begin to wonder: Steve, do you really have a plan? Or are you just throwing out sound bites again?

 

Steve looks confused