Guess what? Newlondon.patch.com reports that the Yale Urban Design Workshop has come up with proposals for development of the 91-acre vacant tract of land on which the home of Susette Kelo and her neighbors stood. We will spare you going through all the planning babble contained in this effort. Suffice it to say that the report’s main goal is to “move towards a comprehensive design concept for the Fort Trumbull area that anticipates the creation over time of a distinctive mixed-use urban neighborhood, creating economic development opportunities built around historic and scenic resources of the site.” What “resources” of the site? Isn’t “the site” a vacant, weed-overgrown, trash-strewn parcel of land? But that does not seem to deter these folks. “The key additional development would be a resort hotel and conference center . . .”
And when is all that going to happen? We’re glad you asked. “Most of the proposals are projected to be long term developments, not likely to appear for two to 10 years.” So can’t anything be done right away? Of course it can – “The report recommends that some proposals can be implemented immediately, such as the establishment of the Fort Trumbull Action Committee and Design Review Board and marketing of the peninsula.” Right! When in doubt, form a committee.
We tried hard to find it but nowhere in this dispatch is there any mention of the likely cost of this caper or the source of funding for it. And so it goes.
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