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To the Editor,
Having lived in Town for quite a long time, my opinion is that neither the Davis Thayer School nor the Parmenter School is the place for a 40+ million dollar police station. Have any of the extreme proponents for Davis Thayer ever spent any time driving down 140 in the mid-to late afternoon or early evening?
At that time of day, with the massive number of cars (cars backed up generally starting at the Country Club), it is stop and go, stop and go, and going down the street on the right to get to Chestnut Street just to wait at the light! I know people who go down to Chestnut then down to where Pleasant and Chestnut meet and then take Pleasant to get to downtown!
Imagine this with the police pulling out of the Davis Thayer lot and the fire department pulling out of their building on West Central Street all at same time! Total chaos.
Parmenter is in the middle of a residential neighborhood with lots of kids.
Why do we have to spend all this money (that we do not have). Modernize somewhat (yes, we need women's bathrooms). Build a modern (MODEST) command center some other place. Maybe on some of the other acres on the back of the Parmenter School site. As far as Davis Thayer, turn it into senior housing (we all know, even the Council, this is needed). There are ways to do this without again spending as much as possible.
Judith Pond Pfeffer
Former long-time Town Councilor
