{"id":1461,"date":"2010-12-16T21:12:02","date_gmt":"2010-12-17T02:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/?p=1461"},"modified":"2017-12-04T09:49:02","modified_gmt":"2017-12-04T14:49:02","slug":"and-the-school-board-is-even-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/2010\/12\/16\/and-the-school-board-is-even-worse\/","title":{"rendered":"And The School Board Is Even Worse"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Ed Naile<\/em><\/p>\n

A Bedford pizza shop owner had the audacity to ask for a variance for a very small LED OPEN sign for his Rt. 101 business, which for some reason is located in the town\u2019s historic district.<\/p>\n

It looks as though the Bedford Historical Commission has given Pizza Bella conditional approval for the now \u201chistoric\u201d sign (in a hundred years it will be an antique as well).<\/p>\n

Here is a comment from a commission member:<\/p>\n

\u201cI hate to have to micromanage this stuff,\u201d said Laura O\u2019 Donnell, a commission member. \u201cI know we have to, but at the same time it\u2019s like, with this economy, I don\u2019t think it\u2019s fair to local businesses to have these historic restrictions on their signs.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

First of all, I doubt anyone who is on a historical commission hates to micromanage anything of someone else\u2019s \u2013 why else do people get on a historical commission? Micromanaging is the intent of a historical commission.<\/p>\n

If Laura O\u2019Donnell really doesn\u2019t want to micromanage then I suppose there will be a warrant article, drafted by her, to amend the historic district to exclude a commercial area full of businesses on a state highway.<\/p>\n

Or:<\/p>\n

Pizza Bella could look to the Town of Pittsfield after March when we will know if that town has approved a warrant article abolishing zoning in an effort to attract business and raise more in property taxes without raising the rate on existing taxpayers.<\/p>\n

All any business in Bedford has to do is get a traffic count that matches one in Pittsfield and you have a start.<\/p>\n

Then a business could leave a town like Bedford where historic commission members wring their hands at how unfair their regulations are to businesses and where the ZBA uses their authority to punish political opponents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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