Today's article by Rob Haneisen http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/news/local_regional/fram_wall03212003.htm
mentions that the tactic that the developer is pushing for is to "burying the cement wall with a massive amount of fill so its visible height was reduced to 4 feet". Joe Mikielian does not find this acceptable and I applaud the followthrough. The wall was only erected because the developer, once again, cut down all the trees on the property (He didn't learn his lesson about tree cutting from the last *three incidents.) and because he brought up some ungodly number (in the thousands) of truckloads of improper fill in order to raise the elevation of the property. I suppose the altitude thing is what appeals to the inner reptile brain. Marketing! The Show Cause Hearing is still scheduled for Tuesday 9:30 at the Framingham District Courthouse. In a related issue, I just got off the phone with a man who has lived on Carter Drive for years and now all of a sudden has a foot of water in his basement. (This is going to cost him probably tens of thousands of ddollars.) The people who live at the lower altitudes are ever more susceptible to changes in water flow as the result of changes in grading and tree cutting made at higher elevations. * 1. The vernal pool disaster on Wayside Circle. 2. The tree burial on Wayside Circle. 3. The illegal tree cutting on the Havel/Sigel properties. -- -Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like a banana. Stranger things have - -happened but none stranger than this. Does your driver's license say Organ -Donor?Black holes are where God divided by zero. Listen to me! We are all- -individuals! What if this weren't a hypothetical question? steveo at syslang.net
