That on top of resounding, almost unanimous opposition to this pipe dream expressed in the Cheriton and BOS meetings last year, followed by tossing out the Chairman of the BOS and the Chairman of the PSA.

Is it not abundantly clear what the public thinks of this boondoggle?

Oh, and by the way, Bob Panek thinks that “Per capita cost is one interesting metric, but we do not believe it is appropriate for evaluating the proposed project'”.

In other words, the political appointees don’t care how much it costs you and I. Seems to me it’s time for some public accountability.

I have seen with my own two eyes what happens to towns on the Eastern Shore when the strip malls go up. It kills the towns. Wake up Cape Charles business owners and fight the pipe or you will suffer.

Side Note: It would appear that the existence of Bay Creek’s plans for future expansion would have been enough to trigger the annexation agreement, so why didn’t the Town pursue this in the courts? The Town spent almost $100,000.00 fighting a local grass roots community group that only wanted to keep the old school public, so why wouldn’t they have defended their end of the deal in court when the stakes were so high? Joe Vaccaro seemed game for the fight, but then he was mysteriously fired. Had the town won, it would have wiped out our debt, and we wouldn’t have to be pursuing these stupid PSA dreams just to salve the blisters on Panek’s metaphorical rear end. Who diverted the Town away from this effort and why?

In this town, the disappointments never seem to end. We had some hopes for Proto (of course, we’ve learned to severely curb our enthusiasm), but he’s turned out to be a bit too much like his predecessor. Like Eminem says, “Look, if you had one shot, one opportunity, to seize everything you ever wanted-one moment, would you capture it or just let it slip?”

We still want to give Mayor Proto the benefit of the doubt, but our advice is to stop listening to them and do what you know in your heart is the right thing (at least what your friends in the business community expected when they elected you).

The facts are different. Anyone who gets into the habit of going to “bigger stores” (Walmart? Target?) on 13 will simply do all their shopping in one place, why come back into the “cutesy shops” to pay higher prices?. The “bigger stores” can carry “cutesy” things as easily as the rest of their inventory. Development on 13 will kill our small shops.

In a Town Hall meeting last Saturday, Mayor Proto indicated that if properties on 13 were connected to our plant, we might see a reduction in our bills of 1 or 2 dollars. Is a maximum theoretical benefit of $24 per year worth killing our business district? IN fairness to the new Mayor, I got the impression that he was skeptical of the PSA hook-up dream. Let’s hope I am right.