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16 Zoning Dig. 1 (1964)

handle is hein.journals/planevirw16 and id is 1 raw text is: Uncle Hiram Speaks Out Chester Swann Most planning board hearings at Hailey's Crossroads take place at Vinnie O'Donnell's office, where the atmosphere is nice and homey. For the Saturday morning hearing on Dorsey's Pond, though, the board bor- rowed the auditorium at Crossroads Elementary which seats 300. Even then, it was touch and go whether everyone would be able to sit down. The crowd that filed into the auditorium could be described as motley. By that I mean it represented all segments of town. Both sexes were present, all economic levels and about every shade of opinion, civic, religious and cultural. There were even three or four women wearing hats. Shep Steele the planning board chairman, led off with his usual caution. His board's action, he said, was purely advisory. It was the town board that made the actual decision (and should get the abuse). It's true that within the memory of man, the town board has never gone against a planning board recommendation. But it makes Shep feel better to get himself off the hook. It looked for a minute as if every one of the 300 present wanted to be heard. From the forest of waving hands, Shep picked out Marvin Phillips, the young lawyer who generally speaks for Haileycross Manor. Mr. Phillips said he represented the largest concentration of families at Hailey's Crossroads, which was true, and that they were solidly united This tale first appeared in Hailey's Crossroads, a weekly column in the Mt. Kisco (N.Y.) Patent Trader. Reprinted by permission of the Patent Trader. The author tells us that there isn't a word of truth in the story but that it represents a distillation of experience with a number of suburban towns. Volume 16 (1964) 1