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plication before tonight.”
Finding agreement on the need for further consideration from the other commissioners, the six members present set a special meeting for 7 p.m. Wednesday, June 8 at the Courthouse to decide on a recommendation to the town council.
Following the hearing on Rev. Scott s application, the members discussed what kinds of revisions should be made to the town’s subdivision ordinance.
“What we want subdivisions not to be is to look like suburbia,” Ms. Kramer maintained. “If we have a subdivision ordinance, we need to ask “What is the town?’ Do we want it to look like sprawling suburbia?”
Mr. Wickens agreed, adding, “We don’t want reproduction Cape Cod colonials sitting on one-half acre lots.”
Ms. Kramer suggested a “positive approach ... We need to talk to people - to ask. What do you want?’ ” Right now, she added, the town is like an English village, where people can walk where they need to go and feel comfortable living close to their neighbors.
“People want the town left alone,” Mr. Wickens said. The problem, he added, “is that people never come out to these meetings when we want their ideas. The come out when we’re ready to pass an ordinance with their guns loaded.”
Ms. Kramer added that cul de sac street extensions - such as those required by the current subdivision ordinance - are perfect vehicles for suburban-type developments.
“The stubs of streets are open invitations,” Mr. Wickens agreed. “I would like the council to vacate
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