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FINALLY!!!! Our Five + Year Battle is over and our
village and community are in tact!
Thank you to all who participated and worked for
this out come! http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2008/04/walmart_calls_it_quits_on_live.html
06/14/2008 This website will be dark in the near future.
UPDATE
from Spokesperson Sharon Fulmer...
10/3/2006
We now
have new news! At
last, it is very good news for all
LiverpoolFIRST members and the residents in and around the site of the
proposed
Wal-Mart at the edge of the Village of Liverpool. The Post-Standard
reported on page B1 of today's edition that Judge Greenwood
issued a five
page ruling in favor of the Village of Liverpool. This ruling says that the village can go
forward with its legal challenge of Salina planning board’s decision to
accept
the final environmental impact statement (FEIS) for a proposed Wal-Mart
Supercenter.
The paper
reports that Judge Greenwood decreed that the Vllage is
within its rights and responsibility to challenge Salina’s decision because of the
traffic
impacts on the village area that will certainly impact police services,
village
residents, and school children. Greenwood comments that the Route 57 corridor is
already over
burdened with congestion so the village has standing to base a legal
challenge of Salina’s
decision. Judge
Greenwood rejected a legal move by Wal-Mart to dismiss the Vllage’s
petition challenging Salina’s
acceptance of the FEIS. Now the Salina Planning Board, Wal-Mart Stores East, and
Ajemian
Properties have ten days to file a response to the Village of Liverpool
challenge.
LiverpoolFIRST offers its congratulation to the Village of Liverpool
officials that have represented the best interest of their community
and pursued
this challenge. Liverpool
officials did now cower to the greed of a corporate giant that wishes
to run
rough shod over our community for its own profits.
We will continue to monitor the legal wrangling and keep you
abreast of the situation as the Salina
Planning Board has stated that they will not move forward with the
proposed
Wal-Mart until this legal matter is settled. LiverpoolFIRST
is posed to continue our efforts to show Salina Planning
Board members that this is
the wrong site for a project of this size.
10/02/2006
We have
no new news on the Wal-Mart proposed for the edge of Village of Liverpool. Currently the Village of Liverpool
and the Town of Salina
are involved in meetings as ordered by Judge Greenwood as a result of a
lawsuit. The Village of
Liverpool brought suit
against the Town of Salina
after the town
accepted Wal-Mart's FEIS. This suit claims that the Town of Salina did not give due considerations to the Village of Liverpool and the ramifications
that a
Wal-Mart built at the Village's edge would have on the Village and its
residents. This suit
was filed in February of this year.
In other
news around the country we have heard of many villages
and towns that are rejoicing because Wal-Mart has abandoned plans to
build in
their areas after large public outcry.
Wal-Mart sites market uncertainty and raising construction costs as the
reasons behind these decisions to pull out of proposed markets. See
the following links for more news like this:
Lima, NY
http://www.13wham.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=6CB22CD3-39AB-4AF1-9A15-41FF81740DB8
Rotterdam, NY
http://timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=521165&category=SCHENECTADY&BCCode=LOCAL&newsdate=9/30/2006
Plattsmouth, NE
http://ap.theindependent.com/pstories/state/ne/20060923/101860188.shtml
02/09/2006
CONCERNED
CITIZEN ACTION ALERT:Call, write, or email your opposition to
the location of a Wal-Mart on the edge of the Village of Liverpool.
The Town of Salina Planning
Board has
recently approved Wal-Mart’s Final Environmental Impact Statement
(FEIS). Next they will review the Site
Plan and
Subdivision application. There is still
a great deal of review to be done by Planning Board members and still
ample opportunity
for the project to be defeated.
If you
haven’t already called Town of Salina
Planning Board Members to express your concerns,
please take a few moments to do so. These
members need to hear your opposition to this site
for a store of
this size:
Chairman
Tim
Frateschi, 302 Swan
Avenue Syracuse, NY 13206
(H) 433-9165 VOTED YES
Member H.
Pat Ehle, 150 Sun
Harbor Drive, Liverpool, NY 13088 (H) 457-5227 ABSTAINED
Member
William Slack*, 908 Beley Avenue , Mattydale, NY
13211 (H) 455-1890 VOTED NO (THANK YOU!)
***** Please Thank Bill Slack for his support
Member Nick
Grillo, 341 Noble
Avenue, Syracuse, NY 13206 (H) 437-3827 VOTED YES
Member Peter
Mazzye, 106 Sunflower
Drive, Liverpool, NY 13088
(H) 451-1818 VOTED
YES
Member
Thomas A. Fodaro, Jr.,
4848 Juneway Drive, N., Liverpool, NY
13088 (H) 457-6320 DID NOT VOTE
Member James
A. Murty, 101
Chestnut Heights Drive, Liverpool,
NY 13088
(H) 451-5714 DID NOT VOTE
Also
take a few minutes to call, write or
email our elected officials to express your opposition and ask for
their
support to keep the “live” in Liverpool:
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Charles M. Iavarone,
Supervisor
Town of Salina
201 School Road
Liverpool, NY 13088
315-457-6661
ciavarone@salina.NY.us
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Honorable John DeFrancisco
New York State Senate
State Office Building
3330
East Washington
St.
Syracuse, NY
13202
315-428-7632
jdefranc@senate.state.ny.us
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Honorable Joan K.
Christensen
New
York State Assembly
4317
E. Genesee Street, Room 103
Dewitt,
NY 13214
315-449-9536
christj@assembly.state.ny.us
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Last
but not least please write a letter to
the editor so that we can keep raising awareness and voicing the
community
outrage over this plan:
Syracuse Newspapers,
PO Box
4915 Syracuse, NY 13221
Fax: 470-3081
Email: letters@syracuse.com
Editor The
Review
5910
Firestone Drive Syracuse, NY 13206
Fax: 434-8883
Email: review@cnylink.com
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Click
on this to Print a sign and place in your car
window to show your
opposition to
building a Wal-Mart Supercenter on the edge of the Village of Liverpool.
Design your own sign for your car, front
window or
yard!
Remember our message is this
is the wrong site for a project of this size. Traffic burden and impact on
character of the Village and surrounding area are our strongest
arguments. Please focus on these.
Anti-Wal-Mart slogans just dilute our message.
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IMPORTANT *** IMPORTANT *** IMPORTANT ***
Sign Making Rally
Saturday, March 4 at 1:00 pm
Liverpool American
Legion Post 188
205 Cypress Street
at First Street,
in Village
Center
Come and help make signs expressing
opposition to this
site for a store of this size. We will ask
residents along Oswego,
Vine, Tulip and Second Streets to place sign in their yards and windows.
Please
leave a message at 447-1494 if you can help.
(Volunteers,
Yards and Windows for placement, as
well as Supplies needed, artistic talent not required!!!)
We must express our
opposition loud and
clear!
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A Car Caravan
will be held at a future date to further demonstrate the traffic burden
that a
project of this size will place on the Village and surrounding area. Please watch for more information to follow.
Call
447-1494 or
Email: Liverpoolfirst@liverpoolfirst.com
if
interested in participating.
Encourage other to
do the same.
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Earlier updates from
LiverpoolFIRST spokesperson Sharon Fulmer can be found by clicking on Archives.
Community
Comments
"Liverpool is a great
place because it has retained much of its original identity.
There are many local businesses within easy (and healthy) walking
distance of our neighborhood, near Liverpool Elementary. The Park
is nearby for walking, cycling, and leisure. Our kids were able
to walk to school for the first nine years without crossing any
streets. It's a very personal place.
"We fear losing our
old Village local businesses - the grocery, florist, eye doctor,
etc. It would change the character of 1st St. And our
already overloaded Routes 57 and 370 would be taxed further."
- Hank and Sally Manwell
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