[Rich, 01:45]
Thoughts...

• Still not done...yeesh!
• I did not appreciate Mr. Gilligan's misrepresentation of my timeliness clauses as "letting town officials get by without doing their jobs." That's patently untrue. The provisions simply imposed a result in favor of the property owner if the relevant commission failed to do its job. All the things Mr. Gilligan claimed my language would cause/allow (lack of information to TM, etc.) is just as much caused by/allowed under the language he supported. I would have called him on this had I gotten a chance to speak again.

  I remain unimpressed by the illogic of Mr. Leone's defense of the "taint-follows-subdivision" rule. If the proponents believe that being more than 100' away means a "Special Place" isn't harmed, why does it matter how a lot that's more than 100' away came into existence? Even in private conversations, I have failed to get a good answer to that.

  In the efforts of the opponents to dismiss the timeliness items, I noticed that while they were quick to dismiss the first two items (relating to the Commission reporting to TM), they avoided talking about the timeliness item that really mattered -- the one that OKed the permit if the Commission dragged its feet. Curious.

  I'm still waiting for a definition of a "Special Place."

  Talk about weird results -- separate 1-vote margins, but by different totals.

• I give Mr. Maher credit for standing up and acknowledging "shame" and "humility" over giving a positive recommendation on the original NESWC agreement (of course, if he hadn't, I'd lay odds at least one of the speakers would have done it for him).

  I hope the Town never gets into something as complicated as NESWC ever again. And it seems every year I learn something new about how atrocious the current contract is. I wonder if Mr. Wooster was serious when he said it has become a case study in how not to negotiate such a contract.

• We'll have at least 14 sessions for this meeting. I wonder how that ranks all-time. I'd imagine it's not the longest. I wonder if it's in the top 10.