![]() ![]() ![]() "There is still time to save Goshen and Orange County!" the movement literature proclaims. The STOP Legoland Group advises against Legoland with the following advice: "Advice to "Protect our Resources - Protect our Land - Say NO to Legoland." meeting planned for Friday, July 21, also at CJ Hooker, for the Goshen town planning board's scoping session.Īn 11-page document was available in the school lobby during the meeting, showing that the Lone Oak Subdivision had requested two zoning applications for Lone Oak TND, which were denied by the Goshen Planning Board in a SEIS report, subsections 1.3 report and 1.4 report.Īlso available in the lobby were STOP Legoland signs, t-shirts and cards with printed information for mailing. He told them to remain strong and definitely attend the 7 p.m. He commended the audience on their good work in fighting Merlin’s Legoland project in Goshen. “We are not sheep," Sussman declared, "and we are not going to be treated as sheep.” He asked that people not to give up or let a possible lawsuit squash their activism and subvert their questions. Sussman said the citizens must not to be pawns in the game. He told the plus or minus 100 members of the audience that they deserve and have the right to demand clarity about exactly what is as stake what the project would do to the community and its people. He said that this is what the political process is intended to do: to address what is at stake. ![]() He said citizens have the right to fight for their way of life and not have it altered by a massive amusement park in their town. Sussman called for activism via the political process, not the legal process. To date, the Goshen board has introduced two pieces of legislation that would enable Legoland to become a reality: first, amending the zoning code, thereby creating a commercial recreation overlay zoning district that would allow commercial recreation and, secondly, designing a law to amend the comprehensive plan allowing for commercial and tourism recreation in certain areas. The zoning change the town is pitching is totally inconsistent with the town's master plan, in Sussman's view. The pro-Legoland plan and the resulting zoning changes the town has proposed will adversely alter the quality of life of every member of the community, Sussman added. He said the town board is considering a zoning change to fit the needs of Legoland’s pitched PILOT ("payments in lieu of taxes") agreement. The most moving and passionate speaker of the evening was attorney Michael Sussman, who said the proposed Legoland master plan is “totally illegal” because it does not adhere to the town's master plan at all. Gocke said the new zoning ideas, coupled with environmental decay, will negatively drain and destroy Goshen's quality of life. The group's concerns included how the massive theme park might affect services like EMT, fire, police, and zoning that speakers said defy the master plan in place for Goshen.Īctivist and co-organizer Jessica Gocke, along with her mother, co-organizer Debra Corr, said she thinks the proposed site for Legoland makes absolutely no sense. STOP Legoland presented views of the destruction Legoland would bring to the Goshen community.Ĭhristine Miele, research facilitator, introduced speakers who addressed the negative aspects of taxes, traffic, water and sewer, and environmental damage. GOSHEN - The Stop Legoland group hosted a public information meeting at CJ Hooker Middle School on the evening of July 18.Īlec Phillips, a Goshen musician and a supporter of the STOP Legoland movement, played guitar and a harmonica before the slide show and speakers. ![]()
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