Yale Farm: Proposed Golf Club Menaces Environment

Gina McCarthy could do Connecticut a big favor before she leaves the state for a high-level job in the Obama administration.

[Zell]

If it means so much to the leftists they should use private money to buy the land and keep it from being developed.
Using the force of government to keep the owners from realizing the lands true value infringes on their rights.
Time to put up the cash or shut up so the owners can be made whole.
Blumenthal needs to stop abusing his office for political gain and a cameo on the evening news.

[Right On]

Golf courses are going out of business and someone wants to take a beautiful piece of land and destroy it by making a golf course. It just does not make sense. And that golf course will be for the rich and the famous, not for the regular folks around the immediate of it. But the money is there and those people who are involved are very powerful and they have a lot of influence.

[Baddegrass]

Zell wrote:

If it means so much to the leftists they should use private money to buy the land and keep it from being developed.
Using the force of government to keep the owners from realizing the lands true value infringes on their rights.
Time to put up the cash or shut up so the owners can be made whole.
Blumenthal needs to stop abusing his office for political gain and a cameo on the evening news.

Is it "leftist" to hold one strata of society to the law that the rest of the populace is held to? The land's "highest, best use" must conform to the minimum scrutiny within the town and or state's regulations. Not every issue is so easily delineated by your two party mentality. Try reading a book or two, possibly on wetland regulations in CT, before showing your limited IQ again in public.

[Maint]

Zell wrote:

If it means so much to the leftists they should use private money to buy the land and keep it from being developed.
Using the force of government to keep the owners from realizing the lands true value infringes on their rights.
Time to put up the cash or shut up so the owners can be made whole.
Blumenthal needs to stop abusing his office for political gain and a cameo on the evening news.

Proudly and loudly ignorant.

[ach]

Zell~ Mr. Betts' neighbors offered to buy the land years ago.
He refused to sell.
Instead, he chose to indulge his ego and attempt to force the community to accept a logistically disastrous and financially ridiculous venture. in addition to an ecological tragedy.
This is a fantasy doomed to fail.
Norfolk is a town of 1500 residents, almost all well-off retired home owners.
The closest place to buy groceries is 8 miles away, the closest movie 18.
There is currently no access road for heavy machinery, and nowhere for construction workers to live.
Once built, it's too far from NYC for a day's revelry... and overnight accommodations are practically non-existent.
And once failed, there's no way to reclaim the treasure.
If Mr. Blumenthal can stop it, it will be a blessing, whatever his motives.

[Mij]

To Ms. McCarthy: REFUSE these permits.
Mr. Blumenthal fight this to the bitter end. this area is a state treasure. Once the aquifer is drawn down it will not be revived. We have cities all across our country that have water rationing of one type or another.
Do not allow this to take place.

[godhelpus]

That's ok, Mr.Betts. forget about the golf course. Show them and build 300 luxury homes instead. Besides you'll make more money off the houses. It's always good to have a Plan B.

[Reality Check]

What everyone of you posters fail to understand is that you have a land owner unwilling to sell the land for preservation. They are dealing with Mr. Betts and that is that.

Now, if Mr. Betts is following all the permit requirements with his application, there is no legal justficiation to not award the permit to him. Blumenthal is just using his muscle for political gain in this instance because the Norfolk citizens, as one poster put it, are well off.

Finally, if permits are granted for this development, the developer should be held to the permit requirements and no technical revisions allowed.

[Laslo]

I don't get it. This guy spends 7 years getting the permits he needs and we're still going to let him build his golf course? Blumenthal, stop this misuse of private property!

[Reality Check]

Laslo wrote:

I don't get it. This guy spends 7 years getting the permits he needs and we're still going to let him build his golf course? Blumenthal, stop this misuse of private property!

Exactly, he spent 7 years because that is how strigent the process is! He is still around, still wanted to construct a course, now what, just say he can't because people are stamping their feet? Come on...get real.

[ricbee]

Tho I've never played a round of golf,I do believe golf courses to be beautiful too. And if they can be useful & paid for by people other than the CT txpayer would be a very fine thing,indeed.

[Nope]

ricbee wrote:

Tho I've never played a round of golf,I do believe golf courses to be beautiful too. And if they can be useful & paid for by people other than the CT txpayer would be a very fine thing,indeed.

Vast tracts of or neon green mowed grass is NOT natural.

The idea of a plowing what is left of the woods for a golf course epitomizes the old way of viewing the environment and regardless of your political slant, it's glaringly and inarguably WRONG.

[Carl Spackler]

It's in the hole.

[Former Environmentalist]

One wonders why our taxes are so high. A person can't even follow the regulations and build a golf course. I think he should bulldoze the entire place and build a refinery. Now how would the Attorney General like that.

Vote everyone out at the first chance you get.

[CtMC]

Hey, this is Ct, not Montana. If the state wants to buy it and set it aside... great. If not, a residential free golf course is the next best thing. At least it will remain beautiful and somewhat clean and not leveled and developed with McMansions like the rest of the state.

[Smoke em if you got em]

I don't think this is a good idea either, but it is not my land. If it meets the permit requirements and local zoning how can Gina and Blumie legally deny this?

Maybe they misprinted all those license plates - the UNconstitution State?

[doityourselfweat her com]

Why not make a money making proposal for all parties involved, that is, turn the farm into CT's official "marijuana" farm.
Seriously, legalizing marijuana is being talked about and should be tried. We all know what it has been like with it being illegal so give it a try being legal. If it doesn't work as desired then again make it illegal.
In the mean time the money saved by all law enforcement in the State trying to enforce the current laws and the money generated in the sale would go a long way to help balance the towns, cities and States budgets (along with electing more fiscally conservative legislators).
A golf course benefits only the "few".

[Smoke em if you got em]

doityourselfweather com wrote:

Why not make a money making proposal for all parties involved, that is, turn the farm into CT's official "marijuana" farm.
Seriously, legalizing marijuana is being talked about and should be tried. We all know what it has been like with it being illegal so give it a try being legal. If it doesn't work as desired then again make it illegal.
In the mean time the money saved by all law enforcement in the State trying to enforce the current laws and the money generated in the sale would go a long way to help balance the towns, cities and States budgets (along with electing more fiscally conservative legislators).
A golf course benefits only the "few".

A happy and joyous 4/20 to you!

It seems our esteemed Courant forgot all about it. Burn one for the people.

[Eddy Merckx]

This golf course idea should be shut down asap, golf courses use huge, and i mean gigantic amounts of fertilizing agents and herbicides and the vast majority runs of into the local water shed and kills wild life on mass, it can not be disputed otherwise, this is completely unneeded and a waste of natural resources, the individuals behind the golf course should be beaten about the head and shoulders relentlessly for being so greedy and stupid. jmo of course. In the end the politicians will be bought off and the golf course will be built. and the natural world will take it on the chin for the good of greed.

[Smoke em if you got em]

Eddy Merckx wrote:

This golf course idea should be shut down asap, golf courses use huge, and i mean gigantic amounts of fertilizing agents and herbicides and the vast majority runs of into the local water shed and kills wild life on mass, it can not be disputed otherwise, this is completely unneeded and a waste of natural resources, the individuals behind the golf course should be beaten about the head and shoulders relentlessly for being so greedy and stupid. jmo of course. In the end the politicians will be bought off and the golf course will be built. and the natural world will take it on the chin for the good of greed.

Then a state-wide moratorium on new golf courses is in order. Works for me. I suspect others would object.