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Cynicism Sets In

So despite the overwhelming wishes of Clinton residents not to do so, a block of three residences will be torn down, two of the structures historic. Despite the overwhelming wishes of our residents against it, a CVS will be built when one already takes up space on Route 1. Despite residents’ concerns that traffic safety and overall quality of our main artery, Route I, will be compromised at the Hull Street/Route 1 intersection, that is where it will be built. Despite the wishes of most residents that an upgraded railway station be built on the site instead, it won’t happen.

Three people overruled the wishes of an entire town. There is the builder/developer with immediate interests in having this structure built on an inappropriate site rather than using three empty lots that would more than suffice, because he doesn’t happen to own any of those lots; then the representative of CVS who wants, when the new CVS is built, to leave yet another empty structure to join about 30 other empty buildings along Route 1; and finally an out-of-town judge who put the final terrible touches to this saga by overturning the vote that barred the new CVS building.

What often happens when no one listens to the majority? Cynicism sets in and residents absolve themselves of interest in their town. I for one will never set foot in this CVS or the new one!

Lynn Davis

Clinton