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The Packards have bought up most parcels in Sterling’ “Performance Zone 1” straddling Route 140 southeasterly from its intersection with Dana Hill Road. They, together with the Sterling Economic Development Committee (the Committee that can’t tell the difference between downtown beautification, among other irrelevancies, and actual economic development), and the Sterling Planning Board, failed atContinue reading “BUTTHURT ATTEMPTED CRONY ZONERS— THE PACKARDS, THE STERLING ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE, AND THE PLANNING BOARD— FAILED TWICE TO GET “PERFORMANCE ZONE 1” RE-ZONED TO “COMMERCIAL.” NOW THE NEW TOWN PLANNER WANTS ANOTHER BITE AT THE APPLE”

In case you didn’t know it, the bent hacks constituting the Sterling Select Board appoint the bent hacks constituting the Sterling Zoning Board of Appeals, and they are ALL up developer James Simpson’s A$$. So I am sure that all of you will be SHOCKED, SHOCKED– — to learn that the Sterling Select Board willContinue reading “THE FIX IS IN: STERLING SELECT BOARD SCHEDULES VOTE TO APPROVE FLAGG RV OPERATIONS AT SIMPSON’S 141-149 GREENLAND ROAD PROPERTY 6 DAYS BEFORE THE Z.B.A.’S HEARING ON FLAGG’S SPECIAL PERMIT MODIFICATION APPLICATION”

The Massachusetts Department of Housing and Community Development’s (DHCD) so-called “Guidelines Team” pulled these utterly arbitrary and capricious so-called “Compliance Guidelines”– https://www.mass.gov/doc/data-sources-and-methodology-document-link/download — entirely out of their asses in an attempt to EXTORT so-called “MBTA Communities” into designating parts of those communities as high-density ‘affordable housing’ zoning districts. SO, self-serving developer and Weasel’s Weasel, CarlContinue reading “MEMO TO CARL CORRINNE AND THE STERLING PLANNING BOARD:  STERLING ISN’T GETTING ANY STATE MONEY DESCRIBED IN CH. 40A, SEC. 3A(b) SO STERLING CAN’T BE EXTORTED BY THE MASS. DEPT. OF HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT”

Carl Corrinne is the self-serving developer-Chair of the Sterling Planning Board. In other words, a Weasel’s Weasel. So you gotta wonder, why did the Planning Board put discussion of new ‘MBTA Community’ Multi-Family Zoning Requirements on the Planning Board’s 15 December 2022 Agenda — https://www.sterling-ma.gov/sites/g/files/vyhlif1266/f/agendas/pb_agenda_-_december_15_2022.pdf  — IN VIEW OF THE FACT THAT STERLING IS NOTContinue reading “THE STERLING PLANNING BOARD, UNDER ITS WEASEL’S WEASEL DEVELOPER-CHAIR CARL CORRINNE, SCHEDULES DISCUSSION OF ‘MBTA COMMUNITY’ MULTI-FAMILY DEVELOPMENT ZONING REQUIREMENTS EVEN THOUGH STERLING IS NOT AN ‘MBTA COMMUNITY’ UNDER MASS. GEN. LAWS CH. 40A, SEC. 3A(a)1”

In response to the Mass.Gen.Laws Ch. 66, Sec. 10 Public Records Request I sent to Sterling’s so-called ‘Economic Development Committee’  last week its Meeting Minutes for August, September, and October 2022 were just posted on the Town of Sterling website– https://www.sterling-ma.gov/node/2226/minutes-agendas   However, despite the passage of Ch. 121 of the Massachusetts Session Acts ofContinue reading “SUPERFICIALITY OVER SUBSTANCE—STERLING’S DYSFUNCTIONAL SO-CALLED ‘ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE’ CAN’T TELL THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN DOWNTOWN BEAUTIFICATION AND ACTUAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT”

This is the Town of Sterling Economic Development Committee’s ‘Mission Statement’ set forth on the Town’s website: “Mission The purpose of the committee will be to promote industrial, commercial, and agricultural business development within Sterling; to provide advice to the Select Board on economic development policy; to meet and work with current Sterling businesses andContinue reading “YOUR TAX DOLLARS [NOT] AT WORK—STERLING’S ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE ENGAGES MATTERS IRRELEVANT AND COMPLETELY UNRELATED TO ITS MISSION AND PURPOSE.”