For various reasons I could not manage to get this to the Hearing today re the medical building. If someone could get up and read this for me as I cannot be there, I would be most grateful.
The question at hand is more than concern re a change made to a building. It is one that concerns our status quo, our lifestyle, plain and simple.
When this building was set up it was to "service the residents of Century Village" and has done so for all these years. It has a physical location in the very heart of the Village, seen almost immediately upon entry to the Village from Haverhill. It is large, yet not intrusive, a regular part of life here, be it using the PT available, or the doctors, the drugstore, meeting place, special presentations, or simply using its parking area especially during show nights. People use the lots, the walkways around the building, equal to an easement that becomes legal after several uncontested years.
Now it is proposed that this building become off limits to residents, to ignore the massive private entity in the heart of the Village. Think not only of the inconveniences, but also of the change to life here. A change which will set off a division among residents and increase angry feelings which can grow into truly ugly statements and actions.
Suddenly this building is to morph into a blockade in the Village, an ugly overbuilt one, trashing the grassy areas, intruding upon the walkways, crossing limits to property allowing for the rural atmosphere we treasure here in the Village. The ugly fences to be built, the damage to the Village aesthetics, the possibility of rupturing the borders of the lake, the huge expense to move a pumping station at a time when the Village is under great financial stress, false statements that the building will be open on Saturday - bosh!! That and the lifestyle of the group requesting these changes are diametrically opposed to the truth of the reality.
Cars entering their synagogue courtyard, children running around there - and there will be many children. Women in "immodest" clothing walking among men entering the synagogue building - not compatible and as owners they can change the rules especially as they are also requesting the ability to change things without following current procedure.
Furthermore, the statement about the availability of the lot on Saturdays is a crock. Cars are driven to the synagogue before Sabbath, left overnight, and used to drive home after Sabbath ends. Now picture the traffic jam, the inevitability of multiple cars in an accident as many cars are coming to the clubhouse, the lot needed for spillage, versus the cars exiting, to return home, using the same two lanes, the same turnoff and CRASH! It is inevitable. And tragic. And this will go on every day and night.
Finally, to say there will be rules in place, well, as a group, there have been numerous instances and troubles with rule acquiescence here in the Village particularly re construction, re safety of others, re the use of pools by naked men, by constantly offering to buy pieces of property so as to enhance the separateness they seem to crave. When one buys here, one implicitly agrees to abide by the rules of life, for life, in CV. If one's chosen lifestyle cannot be meshed with that of the Village there are plenty of areas to choose from. Without rules fair to all, without the inclusiveness we now have, with a greatly diversified population, well, CV will not be what it is supposed to be. That is a tragedy indeed.
Please know that there is no antisemitism here, as I too am an Orthodox Jewish woman who moved here with my husband twenty years ago and with buying, accepted to abide by the rules and the ethos of the Village, So must we all.
Commissioners, please turn down the request, today and on November 28. Please. It would not be a good thing for the Village to agree to these requests. Especially without a massive revision, with concern for the residents of the Village and our needs as well. Thank you.
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