A special town meeting with take place BEFORE the annual town meeting to approve or reject a TIF (tax increment financing) for Sysco to build in Lakeville. A positive vote would move the project along; a negative vote could possibly kill the project. The meeting will be held at Apponequet High School. BE SURE TO GET THERE ON TIME - 6:30pm- FOR THIS IMPORTANT VOTE.
Also, don't forget THURSDAY, MAY 27, 7pm - Public Outreach Meeting at Lakeville Library for more information on the proposed project and the TIF.
Be sure to pass these important dates along to all the Lakeville residents you know.
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Thank you for letting us know what's going on. This project will be terrible!!!!
ReplyDeleteI think lakeville should raise their taxes and generate enough income to cover their ever growing budget and then they would not need companys to come in to their quit little town. After all a large residental subdivision makes far more sence. 250 houses 2 cars each twice a day going and coming from work. Oh ya then theirs the extra children in the school system! Break out your check books! I say Raise taxes and forget about it!
ReplyDeleteFriends of Main Street,
ReplyDeleteAs much as we all want to see the Hospital site developed, SYSCO is the wrong fit in so many ways. This site is not suited for industrial development and pollution, especially with all the new and long time residence now living near by. Please vote "No" to Lakeville selling out and selling short.
It's time for National to step up and do what they promised, remove the asbestos and then demo the buildings(go to utube lakeville hospital to see how the security is working)next clean-up the dump, MADEP is waiting to see your clean-up plan,prep the site, but don't truck the gravel away(it's worth over $1M)keep the trees, reserve the wetlands as you promised,put the sidewalks in, the walking trails in, and a very nice FOR SALE SIGN!!!!DO NOT CUT ONE EXTRA TREE, it takes 75 years to grow another one. Save this property for the right business, not industry. Industry belongs in Industrial Parks, away from houses!!!!Away from children playing in their backyards. Is this so hard to understand????Would you want your child riding a bike on RT.79???I don't think so, Do the right thing National, do what you said, and then NOBODY WILL GET HURT!!!!VOTE NO TIF, NO SYSCO, BUSINESS NOT INDUSTRY!!!
ReplyDeleteWhat will happen is the town will end up with this site and have to foot the bill to clean it up. What would suit this site?.....Anyone....Um..Anyone. Is their somthing that would make everyone happy? That's why I say the town will end up with it and the clean up bill. If I owned a peice of land that was doomed I would walk away and take the loss. In the end the back taxes would be enough for the town to end up with it.Ask Taunton about that. They got stuck with a couple contaminated sites already.Frankly I thing Sysco is crazy for even considering this site. And I think residents are Dumber for even thinking of saying no. Every year that site is dirty is another year it's getting in our water You won't have to worry about your children riding a bike on rt 79. Drinking this water.
ReplyDeleteJune 6 Anonymous-You are wrong!!!The clean-up costs have been grossly over estimated, for a reason, to delay the project till the price goes up. National bought the land for $2.6M, the state estimated it is worth $20M. Not a bad investment is it??? MADEP says that dump is low priority, limited risk to human health....I went to MADEP and got the facts from the site files. Did you....UM.....If Lakeville took the site, it could control the future of the site....open space along Rt. 79,hotel or office space in the middle, and retail along Main Street. This is much better than an industrial park,and all that goes with a distribution center.
ReplyDeleteNO TIF,NO SYSCO......MAKE SURE YOU COME TO VOTE!!!
Anyone who signs "Anonymous" here has very little credibility in my view.
ReplyDeletePlease vote "No TIF."
TOWN MEETING DOESN'T HAVE "ANONYMOUS" EVERYONE HAS A VOTE AND WILL BE COUNTED!!!!!THAT'S GOVERNMENT!!!!THAT'S REAL FREEDOM!!!!
ReplyDeleteNO TIF, NO SYSCO SAVE OUR TOWN
I've been out of town so I don't know how the TIF vote went. When I got off the highway, though, I saw a sign that said "Welcome to SYSCO, home of Lakeville". It looked like it might be a permanent sign. I hope the zoning doesn't go through.
ReplyDeleteSysco President, Fred Casinelli and Sysco Project Manager, Tom Bond, both confirmed for me tonight that the second property in question is the Deweys Main Street site. This is the property that I assume was referred to on the Special Town meeting written agenda, article 2, but was curiously edited out of the last minute oral version. Why this fact has not yet been publicly mentioned by either the press, the town or Sysco seems a bit shady to me. Perhaps they intend to make the whole of Main Street, Gateway to Lakeville an industrial park. Ooohh, but just think of the jobs.
ReplyDeleteI grew up across the street from lakeville hospital, this is the best cost benefit for the town, we don't need a "settlement" with more kids and bigger homes, nor a target,Stop and shop etc. that would be lots of noise and lots of traffic, if you think raising taxes is the answer, you people really are idiots, what will you do if your well is contaminated? cry?
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