Photo: Barry Montgomery stands near the train tracks on the site of the former Cos Cob power plant. Montgomery has launched a lawsuit against the town on its plans to proceed to put a park on the site.
Hearst Newspaper Editor David McCumber Finaly Wakes Up From His Self Induced Coma And Send Out Greenwich Time Reporter Frank "Better Late Than Never" MacEachern
The Clock Is Ticking On The Town Of Greenwich, Which Has Just A little Over A month To Answer The Cos Cob Power Plant Lawsuit
Frank MacEachern, Staff Writer
Published Online: 02:43 p.m., Monday, April 19, 2010
Published Online: 02:43 p.m., Monday, April 19, 2010
A town man is hoping to pull the plug on a plan to turn the site of the former Cos Cob power plant into a sports and recreation area.
Barry Montgomery has filed a lawsuit in state Superior Court in Stamford seeking to overturn last month's Planning and Zoning Commission approval of turning the approximately 9.7-acre site into a park.
"I want to stop this. This is too dangerous for kids here,"...
.....Amy Siebert, commissioner of Public Works, doesn't know if the lawsuit will delay plans to develop the park.
"I don't know what this will do; it's a bit of an unknown," said Siebert, whose department prepared the planned park's site plan and is the lead town agency in the project. Siebert said she could not comment further due to the lawsuit.
However, town lawyer John Wayne Fox is confident that the next step in the plan -- remediating the site -- can proceed even with the lawsuit.....
....Montgomery, whose brother Dean, a Greenwich-based lawyer, helped file the lawsuit, also dislikes the design of the water's edge on Cos Cob Harbor, where a retaining wall, or "seawall," is planned. The seawall would be too steep and would not offer enough protection for children who could fall into the water, he said.
Public works officials have said the seawall, which would act as a support since much of the site is composed of fly ash that settled in over the decades....
First Selectman Peter Tesei Says The Cos Cob Power Plant Is Not Safe
To House Families, But It Is Save For Children To Play On
In 1989, the town bought the site from the state for $1. In return, the state required the town to build 24 affordable-housing units on the site. However, in 1997, the two sides agreed the location wasn't suitable for affordable housing because of the contamination from toxins and the proximity of the abutting Metro-North Railroad.
The town and the state haven't settled the issue of where the units will go.
THE BET IS CRAZY
Chairman Steve Walko Can't Find Money
For A High School Auditorium,
But He Can Find 10 Million Bucks To Build
A Soccer Field On Top Of A Hazardous Waste Dump
$4.9 million has been approved for this brown field site remediation to ensure coal-burning by-product doesn't pose a health risk,
That work is planned to be done this year, but no bids have been put out yet.
Another $5.5 million will be needed to complete the park, including installing parking, a soccer field and a walking route.
One Again The Greenwich Republican Party
Is Getting The Town Involved In Another
Expensive Lawsuit So That Insiders Can Cash In
Town Attorney John Wayne Fox Has
To Respond To The Lawsuit By May 25
John Wayne Fox is telling town leaders that the next step in the plan -- the 10 Million dollar brown field remediation -- can proceed even with this lawsuit.
Meanwhile, Greenwich High School Musicians Are Singing The Blues
About The Fraud Waste And Abuse At Town Hall
PLEASE SEE:
03/31/10 One Greenwich Resident Is Willing To Go To Court Against The "Killing Fields" At The Cos Cob Power Plant
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03/31/10 One Greenwich Resident Is Willing To Go To Court Against The "Killing Fields" At The Cos Cob Power Plant
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You Wont Read This At The Greenwich Time:
Greenwich Real Estate Developer And Broker Barry Montgomery Has Given Notice That He Is Filing A Lawsuit Against The "Killing Field" Known As The Cos Power Plant.
Mr. Montgomery calls the Cos Cob Power Plant a !0 Million Dollar Boondoggle and says the proposed park is dangerous for children a pregnant soccer moms, because of the high tension power lines over head that are giving off emf radiation.
Greenwich mothers who are against cell towers, being next to schools and playgrounds would be shocked to learn that two cell towers are located next to the proposed Cos Cob Power Plant soccer field.
Mr. Montgomery also notes that children could fall off of the unprotected vertical sea wall that will border the Cos Cob Power Plant Park.
Greenwich First Selectman Peter Tesei has received copies of this Cos Cob Power Plant lawsuit.
Interested Greenwich Residents can reach Barry Montgomery at:
(203) 622-1781 Office
(203) 518-2918 Cell
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