WE WERE THERE…
Town and county leaders later voted today to stand pat with existing commercial development caps as established in the 1994 Comp Plan – a latent 5.1 million square feet – despite a last minute impassioned plea from former mayor Mark Barron who said not only were electeds ignoring a “town as heart” motif adopted in both the 94 plan and the current 2012 plan but were effectively “strangling” and “killing” town while vilifying business owners and commercial developers.