Lemonjello
06-29-2001, 01:51 PM
the man who wanted that paintball course with drew his application... THOSE *******S!!! here is the exact article:
Proposed paintball club application withdrawn
By: Shannon OCork, Recorder Correspondent June 26, 2001
Scott Potter withdrew his application sighting reason including feeling "attacked" by the opposition to his suggested paintball field on Spencer Hill Road.
KILLINGWORTH - Scott Potter of Madison withdrew his application for a Special Exception variance to set up a paintball-game club on 27 acres at 32 Spencer Hill Road at the Zoning Board of Appeals meeting of June 18.
Reading from a written statement he later gave to the appeals board as part of the public record, Potter said he was withdrawing his application for several reasons.
First, Potter had not known when he offered to buy the property, that there was a homeowners' association in the area. Property owner Donald Falvey had not told him about that, Potter said. If he had, he would not have pursued the purchase, Potter said.
Sherin Kuhn, secretary of the Cedar Knoll Homeowners Association, said later she was "very pleased" the paintball-game application had been withdrawn because "it would have put us at greater liability. We pay extra insurance on that land."
The original subdivision was built by Don Falvey Sr. as a residential subdivision, Kuhn said, and the deeds stipulate there is to be one house per lot only. A search of the records of the property would have revealed that, Kuhn said.
A second reason Potter chose to withdraw his application, he said, was the community had not treated him well. At his first application hearing on May 21, he felt verbally attacked, he said, at the organized protest against his paintball club. That protest was due to a lack of knowledge about the good qualities of the paintball game scene and how it is evolving, Potter said.
He also wanted it read into the record that while the residents of Granite Hill Road and Spencer Hill Road and other roads around may not want him and his paintball, he did not want people like them as his neighbors either.
ZBA Chairman Bruce Dodson said afterward that Potter had a right to his opinion and a right to express it, the same as town residents do.
In a telephone interview a few days later, Annette Cook of 31 Robin Lane who organized the protest of May 21 said the residents of that area piled on Potter "hard," not because of paintball per se.
"He didn't do it intentionally. He's too young to know about it. But what got us upset was he was messing with our family values, our lifestyle values, our property values, all the things we teach out children and all the things we value in this town," Cook said. "That's why some of us were rude."
A third reason for taking his application off the table, Potter said, was that Dodson was quoted in The Clinton Recorder as saying that Potter's application would "probably not" be approved by the ZBA. Potter questioned the ethics of predicting the outcome before the ZBA discussed the application and voted on it.
Dodson said he had only been trying to advise Potter on how to better position his application. For a special exception to be granted for "a club of recreational use", the minimum zoning requirement is 100 acres, Dodson said. Lot 5N at 32 Spencer Hill Road is only about 27 acres. So Potter's land was not "even close" to the minimum so that a regulation could be stretched. Also, recreational use of land requires that the property be on a state road, Dodson said. The lot in question is on a scenic town road, "far from a state road," Dodson said.
"I wanted him to know he had alternative options," Dodson said. "I recommended to him that he start all over with the Planning and Zoning Commission, but he chose not to do that."
Kuhn said she thought the community had the right to speak its mind to Potter at the public hearing on the matter; that's what a public hearing is for.
"We live in a violent society," Kuhn said, "and we shouldn't have to worry about that sort of thing when we are in our homes."
©Clinton Recorder 2001
Sorry guys/girls....
Proposed paintball club application withdrawn
By: Shannon OCork, Recorder Correspondent June 26, 2001
Scott Potter withdrew his application sighting reason including feeling "attacked" by the opposition to his suggested paintball field on Spencer Hill Road.
KILLINGWORTH - Scott Potter of Madison withdrew his application for a Special Exception variance to set up a paintball-game club on 27 acres at 32 Spencer Hill Road at the Zoning Board of Appeals meeting of June 18.
Reading from a written statement he later gave to the appeals board as part of the public record, Potter said he was withdrawing his application for several reasons.
First, Potter had not known when he offered to buy the property, that there was a homeowners' association in the area. Property owner Donald Falvey had not told him about that, Potter said. If he had, he would not have pursued the purchase, Potter said.
Sherin Kuhn, secretary of the Cedar Knoll Homeowners Association, said later she was "very pleased" the paintball-game application had been withdrawn because "it would have put us at greater liability. We pay extra insurance on that land."
The original subdivision was built by Don Falvey Sr. as a residential subdivision, Kuhn said, and the deeds stipulate there is to be one house per lot only. A search of the records of the property would have revealed that, Kuhn said.
A second reason Potter chose to withdraw his application, he said, was the community had not treated him well. At his first application hearing on May 21, he felt verbally attacked, he said, at the organized protest against his paintball club. That protest was due to a lack of knowledge about the good qualities of the paintball game scene and how it is evolving, Potter said.
He also wanted it read into the record that while the residents of Granite Hill Road and Spencer Hill Road and other roads around may not want him and his paintball, he did not want people like them as his neighbors either.
ZBA Chairman Bruce Dodson said afterward that Potter had a right to his opinion and a right to express it, the same as town residents do.
In a telephone interview a few days later, Annette Cook of 31 Robin Lane who organized the protest of May 21 said the residents of that area piled on Potter "hard," not because of paintball per se.
"He didn't do it intentionally. He's too young to know about it. But what got us upset was he was messing with our family values, our lifestyle values, our property values, all the things we teach out children and all the things we value in this town," Cook said. "That's why some of us were rude."
A third reason for taking his application off the table, Potter said, was that Dodson was quoted in The Clinton Recorder as saying that Potter's application would "probably not" be approved by the ZBA. Potter questioned the ethics of predicting the outcome before the ZBA discussed the application and voted on it.
Dodson said he had only been trying to advise Potter on how to better position his application. For a special exception to be granted for "a club of recreational use", the minimum zoning requirement is 100 acres, Dodson said. Lot 5N at 32 Spencer Hill Road is only about 27 acres. So Potter's land was not "even close" to the minimum so that a regulation could be stretched. Also, recreational use of land requires that the property be on a state road, Dodson said. The lot in question is on a scenic town road, "far from a state road," Dodson said.
"I wanted him to know he had alternative options," Dodson said. "I recommended to him that he start all over with the Planning and Zoning Commission, but he chose not to do that."
Kuhn said she thought the community had the right to speak its mind to Potter at the public hearing on the matter; that's what a public hearing is for.
"We live in a violent society," Kuhn said, "and we shouldn't have to worry about that sort of thing when we are in our homes."
©Clinton Recorder 2001
Sorry guys/girls....