cuckookatchoo crazy is back in town: be careful chesco republicans….

I just can’t with these people. I got an email this morning:

Guess who just declared she is running for Chair of the ChesCo Republican Committee?

Ada Nestor. Yep. Nutjob at large. I have never met her but she is one of those people that when I read her writings, they sound legit….until you start looking into it. But lazy people don’t. They take things at face value. And the crazy thing is she has a following.

This woman is dangerous! She belongs to this group that is some kind of political machine. The RCCC will become some kind of arm of a murky group called Keystone Fair Business that is a 501(c)(6) that will control the RCCC for it’s specific donors, basically making the RCCC a lobbying group. And who is her right hand girl? Felice Fein, chair of whatever area has West Goshen, I can’t remember right now, where Ada is now the Vice Chair. 

Anyway, I know you are a fan, so I thought I would clue you in! Re-org is the following Thursday.

She used to love Raffi Terzian until she didn’t. But I’m sure as was the case when she used to go yell at Michelle Kichline at Chester County Commissioner meetings as she thinks her vote means she owns Republican politicians personally, right?

Here’s something off of someplace she scribbles. Just an excerpt:

The screenshots are out of order, probably but they don’t matter because they never make any sense like most things that come out of her mouth.

I love how she’s talking about “success stories.” Let’s start where she lives in West Goshen what Republican success stories do they have there where she is Vice Chair of that Republican Committee? Didn’t they have the guy that scribbled on lawn signs of Democrats and then there was the whole gun raffle ticket at tables at the polls during an election that even appalled the fellow Republicans. Yep so #winning right?

And lest we all forget, this was a woman who thought January 6th and assaulting people at our nation’s capital and defacing our nation’s capital was OK ? And she is part of Klanned Karenhood too?

This is a woman who is a legend in her own mind. She even took to trying to say earlier this year that I was impeding law-enforcement because I wrote about ICE in either Coatesville or Phoenixville or both.

Now the people she brings with her? Felice Fein who has been at the helm of the sinking ship of West Goshen Republicans not knowing her ass from a hole in the wall for how long? And the crazies from Oxford and Tammany Hall politics in the cornfield of Honey Brook Township? Gosh how exciting! (No not really.) These are the people that keep what is left of the Republican party in the toilet. Remember what my pen pal said:

The RCCC will become some kind of arm of a murky group called Keystone Fair Business that is a 501(c)(6) that will control the RCCC for it’s specific donors, basically making the RCCC a lobbying group. And who is her right hand girl? Felice Fein

So it’s up to all of you whomever you are as Republicans. Do you want nutbags to further ruin what national politics has done to local and regional Republican committees, or someone like Dave Buckta who will tell them to sit down and mind their place?

Did Raffi Terzian set the world on fire as chair of the ChesCo Republicans? No, but at least he wasn’t playing footsie with a politician of Russian descent like one of his predecessors of recent past, right? (https://www.governing.com/archive/tns-pa-gop-chairman-resigns-sexual-misconduct.html)

While Raffi’s politics have never been mine, he is not a bad person. I first met him through the Tredyffrin Historic Preservation Trust events years ago. He has tolerated an unbelievable amount of constant garbage from the QAnon Princess and those like her. Well, now once again, they want to take over. Why??? Because of the guy Dave Buckta who is in line to be Chair. NO BS about him and they can’t have that, can they? And no, I do not know Dave Buckta, only have actually heard positive things about him and he is not a crazy nutbag QAnon conspiracy theorist who suffers from chronic identity crises.

Dave Buckta who is the current Vice Chair of the Chester County Republicans is too normal, doesn’t live his best fake life on social media, therefore in Ms.- Pretzel -Logic -QAnon- Princess- with- a- Bible- Verse style, he must be bad. That means of course he has probably said no to her or her sidekick Felice- I -Whine -Fein right?

She’s even tried to pervert the data center issues. Going back to her QAnon roots, bless her heart, and everything has a bible verse like it absolves her behavior. (It doesn’t.)

Of course now, Martyr QAnon Princess will rise from the ashes and create a wailing wall about me for writing this. She still never gets her largest impediment to her success is herself, and always will be. She will launch another campaign making me the problem.

LOL I am neither Republican nor Democrat. Her followers with speak about how “liberal” I am, but am I really? I have never thought so. I am just not a Stepford Wife. Women like her say they admire independent thinkers and women, but they don’t. Maybe just my opinion, but a lot of that has to do with their insecurities and feverishly wanting to belong, yet always being slightly on the fringes.

Look Chester County Republicans, you have a choice, and if this one gets another insecure foot in the door, you can really and truly kiss the Republican Party good-bye. If you want a better party, don’t let the worst in. Keep the tin foil hats outside, and The Real Housewives of West Goshen cast members OUT.

why much ado about data centers? simple, they will kill what we call home.

It’s hard NOT to think about data centers. We are living this nightmare, just like pipelines. It is a very crazy thing to realize not enough people in positions of power give a shit about residents in the equation of data centers.

In East Whiteland they never, ever should have said “yes”. The could have IMHO said freaking NO.

In East Whiteland if the supervisors would only find where exactly they left their collective balls, they could still say “no”. But will they? So far it’s the residents are wrong and Papa Government is right.

I am not buying it. It’s like living in a parallel universe, but then again this is the township who few years ago also thought pipelines were nothing to bother about. Of course it doesn’t matter apparently that their residents are still in blast zones.

Then there are things with the East Whiteland that just make you scratch your head. At the recent meeting among other things they had a public hearing where they closed the record before they took a vote….and the solicitor on duty didn’t catch that and WTF?

But the other thing is this: the zoning officer guy for the township (not the zoning hearing board lawyer) was disappeared…in MAY. And WHY? Did he retire? Was he ill? We would have heard right? So what actually happened? And OMG they did NOT like being asked why he was gone and why the current assistant manager was chosen? She was the former manager of East Vincent when the zoning change went through for PENNHURST, correct? What are some of the concerns with how the East Whiteland data center came about? The ZONING. Sorry not sorry. This is how conspiracy theories start and have some actual justification don’t they?

This is exhausting. How do our elected officials except for people like State Senator Katie Muth NOT get data centers? They are getting it in Luzerne County. Look what they just did:

And State Senator Katie Muth has introduced a data center moratorium bill:

There is no law on the books that precludes the East Whiteland from saying no to this or anything else but it just has to be legal, right? The supervisors need to believe what they are doing is right and tell the solicitor and staff to find a way but they don’t, do they? Why don’t they argue the supremacy clause to the US Constitution, for example? They are the government and protecting the residents is the right side of this issue, right? Hows about procedural due process right?

Now Judge Verwey bounced an East Whiteland residents’ case yesterday (just one of them) but that is not bad I think because is it quite possibly not merely a procedural bounce but what lawyers will call a complex jurisdictional? Will this not result in a de novo hearing in Commonwealth Court? De novo means a fresh look, doesn’t it? So this was a move on a chess board, not the end of the story. (Maybe just my opinion, but I am allowed it.)

  1. The entry way for Commonwealth Court is Common Pleas Court, correct?
  2. If this was a bad case it would have gotten bounced at preliminary objections. A hearing was had, briefed, argued, yes?
  3. Based on this, this is not a case you consider on the outset, you do it based upon the hearing, correct? Off it goes to be heard elsewhere.

This is why I think this has legs. Maybe just my opinion, but those are some thoughts. This was a case of first impression yes? And it wasn’t immediately bounced in the hearing was it? Verwey chewed on it, and then decided.

https://www.inquirer.com/news/pennsylvania/east-whiteland-data-center-judge-denial-challenges-20260611.html

https://www.inquirer.com/business/natural-gas-whitehawk-data-centers-20260612.html

The government is an adverse party to the citizenry because they should have looked after the residents, right?

It makes me sad. I was thinking about all of this the other day. I actually drove out to the developments the other day to sit on their road and look across Swedesford at the location for the data center. How can they not see this is most simply put a bad plan? Here are some photos. A few were taken by the neighbor of the permits.

That’s all I have got, and yes this was a meandering ramble. I am just sad that we are dealing with this EVERYWHERE.

We as residents have everything to lose and government is NOT protecting us. Period.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/12/opinion/data-center-ai-democrats.html

If you would like to donate to the legal fund for the data center group, no donation is too small. Here is a link: https://venmo.com/u/communityfriends

Stay cool, it’s hot outside and try to conserve water as we are in a drought warning. Last thought? How would we survive serious drought warnings with data center around here? In my humble opinion, we wouldn’t.

From a RTK request results Ginny Kerslake received

Put that in your proverbial pipe and smoke it. The devil is in the details East Whiteland residents (and neighbors.) Keep fighting.

Ciao for now.

the nature of bulltwaddle and horse manure?

Eye rolls galore and sorry not sorry. Willistown isn’t stealing the farm are they? They just want to fix the stormwater issues and upgrade what already exists correct? I know where this property is I know this isn’t the “front yard” per se. It’s more like a corner of the property and there are adjoining neighbors and they don’t seem to be kicking up a fuss so what’s the deal for real? I actually was on the property a few years ago as someone I knew was renting the barn etc.

Screenshot

From a friend who lives there and has a culvert that was updated. They said:

a lot of the culverts put in in the past are vastly undersized. It’s not a matter of draining wetland so much as it is handling storm water.

A resident of a neighboring street that cannot get emergency services to their road because of all of this said:

The area in question is so small. I don’t know the dimensions of the 2000 sf area in question but think about 40’x 50’ is 2000 sq feet. When it floods I can not either get to my house or leave my house. Emergency vehicles unable to access half the homes because of massive flooding on road

There was an article recently in the Daily Local that could have been better with more research as opposed to quick publishing.

So I’m sharing some photos and stuff of Spring Road in Malvern because I think the recent Daily Local article left a lot out.

The subject or main person of the article is seemingly litigious by nature, and if he is so big on the freedoms of Pennsylvanians, he’ll realize what I’m about to say, falls under the first amendment.

I think his little schtick in front of the county commissioners every month makes him like a mosquito. Buzz buzz buzz.

Willistown IMHO most certainly does NOT want to exercise eminent domain from what I have followed of this issue but for how long is that road supposed to be closed because essentially he is not cooperative? And I am allowed to ask that question. And if you’ve ever watched any of the videos of the public meetings when this has come up, you might have a very different view of this than just this one article. Note video snippets for the consideration of my readers.

(And again, I’m allowed to say that it’s opinion covered by the First Amendment)

One of the things I am most strongly against is eminent domain. But this would not be eminent domain for private gain. It would be for public purpose because they have to make the roadway safe and the little bridge there safe the flooding is literally insane and it makes the road dangerous during the flooding events and after as it crumbles away. If you live there, wouldn’t you want that to be safe?

If the County Commissioners wish to wade in and help negotiate a non-eminent domain solution, that’s terrific but there’s a bigger story here and that’s my opinion.

I encourage people to go walk by the area being discussed on the PUBLIC roadway – I am not advocating trespassing as that is against the law. But there is a real need to fix this road. Again, I am not for eminent domain AT ALL, except this is public purpose and has been an emergent situation….for quite a while. Again, that is my opinion and it is allowed.

AND NO ONE IS PROPOSING A CONDEMNATION OF AN ENTIRE FARM, ARE THEY?

And I believe climate change has a lot to do with this because storms have changed dramatically over the past years as we all know.

At one of the May Chester County Commissioners, he referenced an attorney out of West Chester named James Tupiza, Esq. filing something against the PA Bureau of Land Preservation? That would be filed in Dauphin County, right? So was anything filed? What commercial horse business was he referring to? Renting the barn and stuff? And how many hives constitute an apiary? Is there more than one bee hive? How can he see the road from his house?

And this is literally a corner and like NOT the whole front lawn right? I think it might be 20′ x 20‘ or something approximately given what was in the article?

Look I went to county records. I don’t get what he’s talking about. No one is taking his whole farm that I can see. What I see is they want to deal with one small area of a large parcel and aren’t they doing it so they don’t have to keep doing this? This has been going on for years. And it can’t be a one lane road, can it?

No one is stopping him from playing gentleman farmer or whatever, it’s just about fixing the problem and opening a PUBLIC road isn’t it? The Willistown Meeting on this is June 4, 2026 at 7 PM in the township building.

yass developers are not listening hard enough

A photo sent to me during recent civic association meeting…

I spy with my little eye a new Inquirer article on the 19035. No not about the grifters currently visiting Club Fed or wherever that the civic association didn’t want mussing up their “vibe” but the article is about the equivalent of the hypothetical company town owners.

https://www.inquirer.com/real-estate/gladwyne-redevelopment-new-buildings-green-space-jeff-yass-20260525.html

(Inquirer article has a pay wall and you have to subscribe to read it, unless they are still allowing people a few free reads a month?)

What do I say company town owners? Easy. In part this reminds me of our history when it come to factory / mining / mill towns when they were first settled (think 19th century.)

These company towns were controlled by the owners of the factory / mining / mill towns. They built the houses, school, local store, etc. etc. (Related aside: Gladwyne already once was a mill etc. town once upon a time, so is that the rich man poor man vibe the developers are going for again?)

Anyway these company towns had the ability to control every single person. They had literally a monopoly on everything. Workers and their families were dependent upon the owners of factory / mills / mines for their survival, which was a great way to control these people yes? Of course, history refers to boom and bust cycles with these towns which is why tourists visit ghost towns out west to this day, yes?

If you are interested in learning more about these types of towns see:

https://www.killinglyhistorical.org/museum/village-vignettes/life-in-a-19th-century-mill-town

https://www.easttown.org/m/newsflash/Home/Detail/385

Yeah I know you think I am off on a tangent but the origin of the Gladwyne Village is HELLO a MILL TOWN. Do the upwardly mobile of nouveau 19035 really want to be owned again in a sense? Sociologically it’s a fascinating point to ponder.

So the article also talks about the mythical green space that is so fake sounding I can practically feel the sickly sweet taste.

Here is a link to what they presented to HARB at the beginning of May, which is what they presented to the 19035 gated community errr I mean Gladwyne Civic:

https://app.sharebase.com/#/document/281645/share/166-goqbZQoneNCIbX2j2C4VBgk3MX4

(I will tell you that Lower Merion Township’s website sucks, it’s as if it was designed to hide things, but I digress.)

So once again they are with the green space and fakakta gazebo with parking butting up against existing residents’ homes like it’s a city and WHY? Do they not see the big assed park that is 14.8 acres DIRECTLY ACROSS THE STREET?

I mean I am told that developer guy Andre worked in the village as a kid before he became an Andre? Does he have selective male Alzheimer’s or something? Are they literally BLIND as to the amount of green space, open space, natural water features, etc etc that ALREADY FREAKING EXIST IN GLADWYNE FOR ALL TO ENJOY? Are the residents also green blind?

Literally WTF in Gladwyne?

They don’t need a developer manufactured pocket park in essence….there is one across the street that is HUGE. Then there is Rolling Hill, Saunders Woods, Flat Rock Park, need I go on?

So these people and Lower Merion Township are either not listening hard enough, not caring enough to hear, or are just freaking green blind aren’t they?

Do the historic preservation and adaptive reuse. Rebuild the Gladwyne Pharmacy etc building, as that was probably just a favor for some pal that Walter Durham designed it in the first place because he designed houses, not mini malls. But leave the zoning alone which will threaten a well established historic district that is recognized on a local, county, state, and federal level. (Unless of course they plan to add a Trump Arch like planned for Washington DC?)

Listen harder and hear developers.

Don’t tart up the village. Do better, be better.

If these developers want their legacy in the 19035, they need to respect the legacy that already exists. Right now they are merely paying it lip service in my opinion.

things that make you go hmmmm

Once upon a time until but a year or so ago that was this cute stone rancher, (or maybe it was just stone faced rancher) for sale in Tredyffrin.

I remember the listing because I had a friend that was interested in it and then all of a sudden it was off the market. At that point in time it had been a little overpriced, but it was a super cute house. However, it’s drawback to my friend, (which is why they hesitated) was the location. Old State Road and Contention Lane.

Sorry not sorry, it’s odd right there. When I first went back there years ago to photograph a historic property near there for a house tour, it just felt kind of cut off, like a place people only occasionally pass through. And a little isolated.

We all know it now that this was the location of where nurse, mom, friend, sister and wife Megan Nieberle was murdered in cold blood by Steve Jahn.

https://people.com/man-allegedly-shot-nurse-after-telling-cops-people-following-him-11924583

Slightly off of the beaten path, highway adjacent. Yet some interesting houses. Modest and historic and older developments.

But this rancher? Cute and on a generous corner lot. It’s sold at a sort of bargain basement price only to be knocked down.

It’s quite a big house. With oddly small windows.

What’s happening is quite interesting at 809 Contention Lane (UPI 43-5Q-9) in my opinion.

Tredyffrin has NOTHING online easily found except a note from a 3/24/26 EAC meeting mentioning issues of equipment within 5-10 feet of stream in the floodplain and a request for code enforcement to go out. Has code enforcement gone out? What was the result?

How was this approved? Was this truly by right? Why doesn’t it seem like Tredyffrin doesn’t put their land development plans online?

It just seems really big considering what used to be there.

hey now tredyffrin and villanova, can you hear mt. pleasant now?

This. Finally. People all over now understand what the residents of Mt. Pleasant have been dealing with for YEARS.

Anyway, my cup runneth over in gratitude for Philadelphia regional media digging in to what has been going on for far too long in this historic old neighborhood in Tredyffrin. It is gratifying to know that they care about people in the region enough to hang out and talk with these people for a while because basically no one else has.

Perhaps somewhere up above Miss Mazie Hall and her pal Margaret Collins are smiling? I mean developers could tear down Mazie’s house, but neither predatory developers nor animal house college students have a right to destroy this neighborhood. It is that simple.

https://www.audacy.com/podcast/kyw-newsradio-audio-on-demand-12880/episodes/loud-music-trash-late-night-parties-could-villanovas-new-cabrini-campus-make-things-worse-for-neighbors-19460

So Tredyffrin Township, it’s time to get off your collective asses and stop ignoring this neighborhood because everyone knows if this was an expensive McMansion district you’d be hopping to PDQ. Yes I am in fact saying that if this wasn’t a historically black neighborhood, this problem would have been dealt with years ago. And by the way, the McMansionette dwellers in the new big huge town houses are not happy with this issue either.

And Villanova University, walk the walk, don’t just talk the talk.

https://www.inquirer.com/news/pennsylvania/chester-county-villanova-cabrini-student-housing-20260512.html

https://ujsportal.pacourts.us/Report/MdjDocketSheet?docketNumber=MJ-15102-NT-0000043-2026&dnh=Z7W%2BOQ0b8dGkWtYzKKUPwA%3D%3D

https://ujsportal.pacourts.us/Report/MdjDocketSheet?docketNumber=MJ-15102-NT-0000044-2026&dnh=m96B5LiVbQqFUUkXo036ZA%3D%3D

Also overnight, international news (The Daily Mail) picked up the story….

https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15824195/Quaint-neighborhood-safe-ruined-students-Villanova-University.html

well lookee there tredyffrin, a BIG article about mount pleasant and what residents have been dealing with for decades.

Has a rainbow come to Mount Pleasant in Tredyffrin? Not sure exactly, but a mighty fine centerpiece article from The Philadelphia Inquirer has arrived.

I am so happy for the very beleaguered residents of this small historic neighborhood. I am honestly really happy that a bona fide reporter listened to what the residence had to say and wrote about it fairly.

See Tredyffrin? Told ya.

See Villanova University? Others do care about Mount Pleasant, even if your off-campus students and student rental slumlords there do not and just out of curiosity how many of those student rental landlords are alumni?

https://www.inquirer.com/news/pennsylvania/chester-county-villanova-cabrini-student-housing-20260512.html

Yes there is a paywall but I actually know someone who subscribed today just so they could read this article. Tredyffrin’s inactive chickens are coming home to roost in Mt. Pleasant with this article. A reporter, the photographer to look into what has been even documented on social media.

This is a large article and I hope the message has been received that it is time to stop offering lip service, and deal with this.

As for Tredyffrin Supervisor Carlotta Johnson-Pugh who was quoted? She really shouldn’t dance. She should just say what the residents tell her: if this wasn’t a historically black neighborhood, people would care more. THAT is the truth and reality.

I don’t know where half of these Tredyffrin Supervisors were years ago when the original student housing ordinance was coming in to play, but I remember quite clearly how much it took them just to get around to doing an ordinance. It was somewhat disgraceful it took so long. And maybe the police department only has a certain number of calls on the books for the school year 2025 to 2026, but I have to ask were all of the calls investigated? Are the residents taken seriously?

This is what one neighbor said in the article:

📌 “When the parents aren’t getting on them, the college is not getting on them, the police are not getting on them, and then you got the neighbors, and all we can do is make a little fuss, but there’s not a lot we can do,”📌

This is a centerpiece article IMHO. The curtain has been lifted beyond a curtain raiser. Tredyffrin’s zoning officer is lazy at a minimum and could be doing more.

The township manager wasbrought up by Dave Bashore in Radnor before Tredyffrin (https://patch.com/pennsylvania/radnor/scoop-what-happened-to-dave-bashore) is a Tredyffrin RESIDENT (https://www.mainlinemedianews.com/2018/02/15/main-line-banter-meet-tredyffrin-township-manager-bill-martin/) so he should care more about a lot of things than he does. He can be a part of the solution. These residents have deserved better than what they have received for YEARS.

Carpe Diem. Tredyffrin supervisors and staff need to walk the walk not just talk the talk.

https://www.inquirer.com/news/pennsylvania/chester-county-villanova-cabrini-student-housing-20260512.html

Allow one more (brief) quote from the Inquirer article today from Villanova University:

📌“Students are subject to the University’s Code of Student Conduct whether they are on- or off-campus, and the University follows up on all reports it receives from local municipalities,” the spokesperson said in a statement.📌

Ok good to know based upon this familiar email. I say familiar because I’ve been told people have received variations on the same theme:

Now to be fair, in the past I have found Villanova’s security folks helpful to residents to the best of their ability. But heavier lifting needs to come from Villanova University decision makers. I think they promised to be better during that meeting last year with residents once they acquired Cabrini?

A lot of schools in this country have directories on file for where all of their off-campus students are residing correct? Why can’t Villanova do this? I think I’ve been asking this for like over 20 years haven’t I? Why can’t they have a better grip on where these kids are living and how they are behaving vis à vis their policies they have in place for their students in general?

https://www.villanova.edu/university/offcampus/information-for-undergraduates.html

You know when you talk to these residents, they understand the college students want to have fun because a lot of them were college students once upon a time. However, these are literally animal houses that Mount Pleasant has been dealing with for far too long. And there needs to be palpable culpability on the part of the property owners who are renting these houses, perhaps?

I think this is a big stay tuned thing because I think this is a story that’s going to keep growing until the problems are solved in Tredyffrin like in Mount Pleasant.

Here is past stuff:

https://www.tehistory.org/hqda/html/v12/v12n1p002.html

https://pattyebenson.org/2010/03/25/need-for-college-student-rental-ordinance-not-just-a-mt-pleasant-issue-this-is-a-township-issue/

ties that bind in honey brook township and more tales of the politically pathetic?

Oh Honey Brook Township Liberty Biberty mush mouth Steve-O 🤣 is at it again (must’ve lost his binky and needs attention) and he really shouldn’t give up his day job, but nobody’s really sure what it is right now because he’s doing all this stuff again, right??

It’s all of the same lame arguments that they tried to apply to Valerie Shultz before she beat the pants off of him (frightening mental visual BTW) in the fall election as a Republican.

There is even a pathetic attempt to resurrect the kids are unsafe issue because Scott Stilson as a Republican committeeman asked a school if they would consider being a polling location because the polling location that serves their precinct is outgrown for the most part. That’s common and happens all across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania every year and all across the country, and it doesn’t mean the kids aren’t safe. That is a fear mongering lie, and it’s like the other lies.

You know it’s all being spread thicker than pig manure on a cornfield out there because they are THAT desperate.

And then when blather hoodie wants to talk about his close personal friend, Gary McEwan who’s been on the school board for how many decades at this point (is it like 33 years?) and involved in politics for how many decades at this point like his dad before him and that’s a reason for term limits is it not?

And then Steve mentions John Burdy the toady (his wife is Laura Burdy the toady who is a supervisor and isn’t it all so cozy?) who is running for Republican committeeman who is also just a yes man warm body for the status quo on the Twin Valley School Board along with Sally Dee Gee’s son Baby Nicky (or maybe he still wants to go by his sock puppet account on Facebook called Jack Wilson?) who is a college student, so they want to set him up not only on the school board where he’s just a warm body to say yes to whatever the school board president wants, but then they can set him up to keep the political control going of Tammy Hall in the cornfield in Honey Brook, right?

People, is time for change in Honey Brook and this is a small but important opportunity to keep that mission going.

Be the change you want and don’t vote for any of these people. I mean, come on they’re even slashing political signs and destroying them, which is something that they swear they don’t do right? And then there’s the whole question of debate, this time they asked for it and now apparently they’re not doing it?

Be the change. End Tammany Hall style politics in Honey Brook.

PS to address one of drama hoodie’s erroneous claims of last week was insinuating that there was something wrong with the Honey Brook Township Manager leaving? No state secret, just MONEY…

https://amp.centredaily.com/news/local/community/state-college/article315653930.html

Bwahahaha 🤣

back to the 19035 and the “plan” that still appears problematic….

screenshot of updated Gladwyne plan…

Well….it’s better but certainly not there yet.

Among my issues?

The “greenspace” and then shoving parking next to private homes of residents who were there first. Quite disrespectful at a minimum if it matters to these people.

Greenspace is great, but have these people also actually paid attention to Gladwyne?

Right across Youngs Ford Road is a most marvelous park, and some of the best trails and open space anywhere are already existing in Gladwyne and have for many, many years. That “greenspace” is lipstick on the proverbial pig and a vanity thing along with the “water feature” and most of this project. And yes I can have that opinion. (Creeks and a big river are apparently not enough of a NATURAL water feature?)

A lot of people were not around to remember the “water feature” that worked for like ten minutes in Ardmore at the “gateway” on Ardmore Ave by Bryn Mawr Trust (don’t know what it is now). And the water feature was crooked, as in not level.

Today it is an oversized flowerpot that whomever owns the property should care for, but not sure who does?

Gladwyne is a beautiful area with natural water features, not an urban center that needs the calming influence of the sound of water so you don’t hear buses and taxis etc etc.

I am all for historic preservation and adaptive reuse, not Disney.

Gladwyne does not have to be Peddlers Village, there already is one.

Gladwyne does not have to be anything other than the sweet village it already is.

Reading and reciting history to (in part) appease HARB and the public doesn’t mean you get it, and part of the whole they aren’t there yet, is they do not get Gladwyne any more than a lot of the nouveaux who have moved in over the recent past.

What I have sadly observed is I do not think that the commissioner who now serves this ward including Gladwyne gets it, nor do most of the 14 member board of commissioners.  The current leadership of Gladwyne Civic either doesn’t get it or they in my opinion have personal agendas and yes, I can offer that opinion.  One co-president in particular is a problem and he treats Gladwyne as a gated community, which oh my means he won’t like it in the end if the village turns Disneyesque. The other co-president is nice (and his wife is fabulous.)  The civic today seems to not have the same spirit past iterations have had, and a lot of the people willing to get up and fight for Gladwyne have moved and even passed away. Can we send up a prayer that Gladwyne Civic finds it’s lost spine?

BUT (and it’s important) If the commissioners allow that zoning change it will mean eventual disaster for a little, VERY historic crossroads village, which historically is supposed to be just that. Nothing more, nothing less, it doesn’t have to be.

The other thing is this: there are other areas the “developers” AKA new village owners could pour their energies into. Like Narberth, which is no longer a magical small town that I used to call Main Line Glocca Mora, it’s a hot mess with local borough government that acts like they all have had lobotomies or something. (Cue trying to sell Sabine Park for development, right? Or the disgraceful condition of parts of “Main Street” near the old market.)

Look, the bottom line is these people see a PROJECT in Gladwyne, and IMHO it is still a vanity project because I still feel they don’t SEE Gladwyne for who she really is and can remain.  Again, I don’t object to restoration and adaptive reuse AT ALL, but as for some of the rest of it, there was something one of my grandmothers said once upon a time: just because you CAN do something, it doesn’t mean you should.

Enjoy the screenshots courtesy of the Lower Merion Historical Society and my photos with many happy memories of the village of Gladwyne.

Here’s hoping they figure it out.  Here’s hoping they realize that some places can retain their historical and beloved character and it’s ok just the way it is.

(Also, I had heard that there MIGHT be some kind of a meeting possibly at Waverly Heights on May 19? Is that just a regular civic meeting or a special meeting? And ummm on Election Day? That’s kind of shady isn’t it? And if it is happening, where is it posted so people can verify it? Or can’t the public attend?)

I am also including in the post, proposed changes to historic preservation stuff in Lower Merion and Class I and Class II resources. (It is a draft of a historic preservation plan.) As I know longer live there, doesn’t affect me, but it bears reviewing by the public before the commissioners act upon it in the future. I will note that the LMT employee head of HARB, Greg Pritchard, is a really good dude and incredibly knowledgeable. I came to know him years ago when he was with the Radnor Historical Society. He helped me research the Wayne Natatorium when I was submitting it to the state for the historical marker.

well alrighty then in east whiteland….

Now people should be pushing for that old plan to be RESUBMITTED. And any “studies” need to be updated.

It ain’t over.