Board of Aldermen 11-23-2021 Page 30
President Wilshire
Yes.
Laurie Ortolano
Okay. Sorry, | couldn't find the button to put my hand up. Laurie Ortolano 41 Berkeley Street. | would just like to, you know,
make the Board aware of a couple things regarding this development. We have to be cognizant of the fact that the property
owner has the right to sell their property and enter into a contract to do what they're doing. | understand the homeowners on
the west side of Concord Street not wanting this in their neighborhood but | think we have to recognize what control and what
power we have and what we do. | think we have to be careful of setting a precedence here. | don't agree that we have to
expand Greeley Park that there's a space limitation in there and that this parcel is a vital part of Greeley Park. | think that
everyone should look at what the developer has proposed and anyone who says that, you know, we don't know what his
work or what he's doing, you know, look on the contractor’s site at the three developments that were done. You'll get a pretty
good indication of his work and it seems to fit in line with what was presented to us on Wednesday night.
So | think it's really important. | mean we have a development — the Camp Doucette was bought down at - purchase for $4
million at 132 - oh the road in South Nashua. It escapes me now. That was 20 acres of a Boy Scout camp for years, and
years, and years of old forest and that is all being cut down and turned into a, you Know, 40 unit or more property
development. We don't run in and scoop it up and save it. And you know, there's a reason we don't do that. So, and | think
there's some misinformation given out here. | would like to ask if the Mayor plans to recuse himself because he's a voting
member of the Planning Board and so is one of his or he can have a representative of his office and | think that since its
development in his neighborhood, he should recuse himself from voting on this just to be aboveboard on all of this. But, you
know, | want to caution you.
| happened to live in Litchfield. There were three developments that went in a 55 and older, a bike path that cut right through
my backyard with 20 feet of it taken, and a high school one street away, and | backed all of them. | know | was unusual to do
that...
Donna Graham, Legislative Affairs Manager
Thirty seconds.
Laurie Ortolano
| don't feel that my property lost value. That | made a bad decision. | wasn't popular at the time, I'll tell you that but it
(inaudible). | view the high school as a plus. | viewed a bike path seven mile path off the back of my house as a as a good
thing and the 55 and older was very cookie cutter not like this, and | didn't think it was going to harm the property and it
didn't.
Donna Graham, Legislative Affairs Manager
Time.
Laurie Ortolano
So | want us to be respectful of the process and make certain that we're allowing a fair and just process to take place here.
Thank you.
Alderman Lopez
Can | just ask a point of order?
President Wilshire
Alderman Lopez.
Alderman Lopez
| guess my first question is, is this a point of order? Does the Mayor get a vote on this? | thought this was aldermanic
legislation?
