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yass developers are not listening hard enough

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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:

The Earliest Mill
The Mills Of Lower Merion
Company Towns: 1880s to 1935
Corridor Company Towns

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

About

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.

Gladwyne

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.

yo’ gladwyne be grateful for the charm that exists: no need to tart it up.
back to the 19035 and the “plan” that still appears problematic….
BIG meeting for gladwyne civic tonight?

things that make you go hmmmm

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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.

lament for a lost love

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What a sad country to celebrate America 250 in. Our founding fathers are rolling over in their graves.

‼️ Warning, if you’re from the other side of the aisle and still think a man who kills a rose garden is fabulous, DO not leave a comment. I am not interested. Leave it to YOUR space, not mine.‼️

Our founding fathers fought blood and died for our freedoms, not so freedoms could be abused and be subjective, depending on who you were and how much money you had that’s part of why they left Great Britain in the first place.

This isn’t a post about Democrats are all good and Republicans are all bad (or vice versa) especially because I am an Independent not that it’s anyone’s business but my own. The politics of extremism continue to ruin this country. That is a simple truth.

I cannot in good conscience support elected officials who never served in the military playing war. They should’ve had more G.I. Joes and stayed in the sandbox.

I cannot in good conscience always just sit with my mouth shut while people who are the least bit different from the person next to them are ridiculed, reviled, harassed, and berated for who they are or even just an opinion that somebody else doesn’t like.

I remember being a kid and being so excited for the bicentennial. And we did cool things thanks to our parents like ride in a covered wagon to Valley Forge Park. We met reenactors of the continental Congress – politicians from both sides of the aisle, who came together for the greater good and remembered why our country was founded. Most of those people are now gone. I keep hoping more like them will step forward.

As part of the next generation approaching and attaining retirement at present, I am terrified of the future that there will be nothing left, (even though we’ve all worked our entire lives) to have basic things like Medicare and Social Security. more and more people every day are in dire financial straits and you can’t just say “oh it’s their fault.” These aren’t people looking for a handout. These are people who worked hard and this country is deserting them as businesses fail, and we have false bravado about an economy that quite frankly sucks.

My country ‘tis of thee, Sweet land of liberty should be more than song lyrics.

We are not experiencing the best of times as propaganda would have you believe, we are literally experiencing kind of the worst of times and it makes you wonder how people felt just before the Civil War doesn’t it? Or how they felt before either world war, or even what it was like in 1930s Germany.

I speak for no one else. These are just my random thoughts. They’ve been bubbling in my brain for a while.

Again, if you don’t agree with me, or you feel the need to educate me, quite simply put: don’t.

welcome to east whiteland: litigation station over data centers has begun…

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Courtesy of those amazing East Whiteland residents protesting data centers

Welllllpppp…the litigation trains have left contemplation station. Residents have filed against East Whiteland Township. The topic? DATA CENTER planned for Swedesford.

Can’t say I am surprised but I bet the township is. Wake up over there on Conestoga Road in the township building. It’s never too late to do the right thing for residents is it? Mebbe Captain Green Fig can move the data center to his back yard in Willistown?

Sarcastically yours while telling East Whiteland I told them so. I told them this was a bad plan…..around 2018 for the first time….and continually since….

#saygoodbyecharlie

#nodatacenter

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

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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?

hey villanova officials have you actually been to mt. pleasant?

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/

Mt. Pleasant Neighborhood. . . How Can We Help?
Tredyffrin planners against subdivision
Housing issue resolved in Tredyffrin
when is it enough in tredyffrin?
let’s talk mt. pleasant in tredyffrin.
follow up for the no-no queen of tredyffrin zoning re: mt. pleasant
hey villanova officials have you actually been to mt. pleasant?
hey tredyffrin: remember mt. pleasant in the panhandle? it’s blue tarp party season.
romper room in tredyffrin ?
nothing like a couple of obnoxious notes from a nice catholic on st. patrick’s day
dear residents of mount pleasant in tredyffrin’s panhandle

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

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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.

the song remains the same in honey brook and dangerously obsessive much?

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 🤣

yo’ gladwyne be grateful for the charm that exists: no need to tart it up.

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Gladwyne is a wonderful place with a historic village. The nouveau and uninformed see it as this money-laden Main Line place to be conquered. Yeah, so they have done that enough in general to the Main Line, but there are some places that they should just leave alone. That includes the literally historic village in Gladwyne.

Yesterday was Azalea Day at St. Christopher’s in Gladwyne. It was the 73rd year.

I went to Azalea Day from the time I was 12 pretty much until I moved to Chester County. It was and is a perfect example of the magic of the village and surrounding environs which just don’t need tarting/messing up.

Historic preservation and adaptive reuse YES.

A zoning change and development circus? NO.

Gladwyne doesn’t need to be other than it is. Maybe people can’t stop Lower Merion from approving horrible out of place LEGO infill development McMansions, nor keep predatory development out of Ardmore with BS plans every few years for Schauffele Plaza, etc., but Lower Merion needs to be proactive with stopping the madness in the 19035.

It’s like Groundhog Day in Gladwyne every few years when a bad plan arises. The only thing now is that they neither have a civic association with people willing to protect the historic village, nor elected officials who are willing to do so and did you ever think Gladwyne would be in this predicament? Honestly, I did not because all of my observing prior to this was admiration for Gladwyne sticking up for Gladwyne.

Historic preservation and adaptive reuse YES.

A zoning change and development circus? NO.

Now there are still some people on Gladwyne Civic who were part of the magnificent years where they STOOD UP and fought for Gladwyne and the historic village. But they are the minority and probably tired. And my so much civic “leadership” yet where IS the leading? Oh I am sure they don’t care for my opinions and they even tossed me out of the closed Facebook group started by a friend. They have social climbers from Chester County in the group, but I am a threat. They tried once before this to remove me unsuccessfully.

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So I am out of the group now, which is no great loss as it is quite the insipid government ass kissing shadow of the group it once was….and civic it once was.

They will say that I am talking about this because it is merely sour grapes and no it’s not. If they kept such close tabs on my activity there before the co-prez removed me, they would see that I really did not visit much as the involvement of my friends lessened. That and knowing that I could not keep my mouth shut over the insipid nothingness that was being posted. Gold foil stars for all, and the nerve of that horse for not picking up its poop!

I had posted about what was happening in the historic village district because THEY WERE NOT. And it was and IS important. But now I realize WHY they aren’t and it’s sad that I realized it’s in my opinion a combination of a lack of spine and it would mean actually working for the community, right? For these people it’s easier to have a “greenspace” and gazebo that is not needed and for the historic village district to lose protections with a zoning change and an overlord they can bow and scrape to isn’t it? And if this goes through like this, history in my opinion, will not remember them fondly.

Again, for the cheap people in the expensive seats: historic preservation and continued adaptative reuse is a GREAT thing. Creating a fake narrative and a Peddlers Village/Disneyesque landscape is NOT. Potentially changing the zoning, tearing down houses and undoubtedly trees is also a BIG MISTAKE.

I can indeed have these opinions. My opinion remains the same: yes to historic preservation, tree preservation, and adaptive reuse. No to zoning changes and the ensuing circus. It’s still supposed to be a historic 18th/19th century crossroads village and THAT is ok.

The Gladwyne Civic needs to recover where they left their collective balls.

Lower Merion Commissioners need to not sit on their hands.

Residents can’t depend on either the commissioners or civic association here and they should go to every single meeting possible to save the village.

Historic preservation and adaptive reuse YES.

A zoning change and development circus? NO.

Vanity projects can be useful, this project has many problems. The developers here should use their big money for good….if they are really listening, that is?

Historic preservation and adaptive reuse YES.

A zoning change and development circus? NO.

https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=146338

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

why aren’t municipalities here following the lead of maine and ohio over data centers?

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This isn’t going to be a long post. These are my thoughts based on a conversation I had with a friend in another part of Southeastern PA, who isn’t being targeted by data centers, but happen to be at a meeting talking about other things where data centers came up.

So in Maine and Ohio with regard to data centers, officials are starting to ask companies to have like a security bond – not escrow – with the purpose to cover potential issues – pollution that affects humans and livestock – cover issues with energy/utilities, decommissioning buildings etc.

As of May 2026, both Maine and Ohio have moved to implement rigorous financial and environmental “guardrails” for large-scale data centers.

Legislators in these states are shifting away from simple escrow accounts toward security bonds and comprehensive accountability frameworks to address potential negative impacts on residents, livestock, local infrastructure, etc.

We’re talking about (in Maine) accountability councils/ committees, resource protection (which includes things about noise pollution, discharge of warm contaminated water into waterways which WILL affect livestock and humans and wildlife and potentially domestic pets, water shortages), utility safeguards (energy costs and straining energy grids).

In Ohio (maybe Wisconsin too?) also the things mentioned above about security and infrastructure bonds. These bonds cover all sorts of things like if a data center becomes decommissioned and land use things around these data centers. Also measures about pollution and the reason these things are coming out in these states is to protect residents from having to clean up after data center developers essentially.

Now this is why you’re seeing in some of these states that these developers are walking away because they’re realizing it’s going to be too expensive for them to do what they want isn’t it?

Also in pending (?) legislation in Kentucky (HB 593), Colorado (SB 26-102), and elsewhere aims to ensure that data centers pay for their own energy. As in all of their own energy it seems?

As of April 2026, in addition, Georgia, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New York, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Vermont, and Virginia are considering or have filed statewide moratoriums or strict regulations. Now realize in Pennsylvania that there has been similar legislation, but none of it has teeth does it? It’s all still aimed to cater to the data center industry isn’t it? And why is that? Two words: Josh Shapiro.

I think data centers will very well be Josh Shapiro‘s political Waterloo. He will undoubtedly get reelected as governor because Marg Simpson, err Stacey Garrity just isn’t going to beat him. but I have to wonder if this will keep our governor from his loftier political aspirations in the end? 

So why aren’t we doing it here now? I know it was bought up at one of the East Whiteland meetings by the Supervisors Chair Scott Lambert that he wanted some kind of financial measures in place to cover some of these things and the data center developers lawyers basically were like no are you crazy but was he crazy? Because this is what’s being proposed in other states isn’t it?

Some of my biggest concerns and some of these municipalities, including East Whiteland is elected officials don’t realize that they can say no, but do they have the courage to do so? You will get responses like along the lines of they have to do what counsel instructions them, but do they really? These elected officials were elected to represent the people. Therefore, all of these other people, lawyers and township staff included work for them and the residents, don’t they?

It’s finding the courage to say no.

Sorry, not sorry but my humble opinion (which I am allowed to have) is we don’t need these in our communities. Developers want them in our communities and all they are is the new apartment building, the new condo complex, the new kind of warehouse. It’s about their profit and nothing to do with us. F ‘em.

Learn elected officials, please learn.

https://www.billtrack50.com/billdetail/1979309

https://www.bdlaw.com/publications/maine-could-ban-new-data-centers-and-what-it-means-for-everyone-else/

https://ohiohouse.gov/news/republican/ohio-house-passes-bill-establishing-the-ohio-data-center-study-commission-142643

https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/maine-could-ban-new-data-centers-and-2375560/

https://mainemorningstar.com/2026/04/06/maine-house-advances-data-center-moratorium/

https://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/bills/getPDF.asp?paper=SP0113&item=3&snum=130

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/maine-legislature-approves-first-us-moratorium-big-data-centers-2026-04-14/

https://www.nrcm.org/blog/four-ways-maine-can-address-energy-impact-data-centers/

https://earthjustice.org/press/2026/legislation-introduced-to-ensure-common-sense-guardrails-on-data-centers-in-colorado

https://www.lpm.org/news/2026-02-12/gop-bill-seeks-guardrails-for-new-data-centers-to-pay-their-own-way-in-kentucky

https://www.wrdw.com/video/2026/02/06/south-carolina-senate-proposes-guardrails-data-centers/

https://www.koco.com/article/oklahoma-lawmakers-bill-data-centers-guidelines/71153972

https://www.datacenterwatch.org/report

https://mayafiles.tase.co.il/rpdf/797001-798000/p797416-00.pdf

https://sentineldatacenters.com/sentinel-announces-3b-of-ongoing-development/

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1553023/000155302317000097/guardiantransactionagreeme.htm

https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/data-centers-are-swallowing-up-our-human-resources

https://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/2026/03/04/the-top-10-reasons-data-centers-must-be-stopped/

https://natureforward.org/data-centers-are-said-to-create-jobs-but-people-need-to-know-what-kind-and-how-many/

https://stpp.fordschool.umich.edu/sites/stpp/files/2025-07/stpp-data-centers-2025.pdf

disappointed in fiorello cafe in west chester.

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What is going on with Fiorello’s in West Chester? They used to have impeccable service, even just from the person answering the phone at the front of the house. Literally for years we have been going in and enjoying meals and occasionally getting a takeout order via Uber Eats.

Now, we didn’t do takeout/delivery for a while because they use the Slice app and Slice jacks prices and if there’s a problem with your order, it’s very hard to rectify.

However, in late March this year– March 29 to be precise we did an Uber Eats order. I think Uber eats is a probably one of the better food delivery services that exists and the problem wasn’t with them. The problem again was with Fiorillo as it had been a couple of years ago when we ordered through Slice with them.

I contacted them via the email address that they claim they have after being rebuffed by a young woman quite rudely on the phone.

This is what I said:

I placed an order from Uber Eats. It came incomplete.

I ordered the Calamari Mediterranean, which on the Uber Eats menu like your physical restaurant says it comes with linguine. 

I am including the description from your page on Uber Eats so you see. It was delivered without linguine there wasn’t even the side salad that used to come with it or even a slice of bread or that skinny pizza slice that would come with it.

I called twice and whoever the young woman is answering the phone is rude. And no, I was not nice in tone to her. I will admit that  because I do not respond to rude her response was “what do you want me to do about it” and that’s  paraphrasing, but that was the message.

“We don’t deliver.” She says.

I know you don’t deliver. The problem wasn’t the delivery. The problem was the order. 

And no, I’m not driving more than half an hour to come pick up a replacement order when I wanted to treat myself to delivery from Fiorello’s.

And her whole attitude of what do I expect her to do about? It is simply not acceptable. That’s what I can’t get past. She could’ve actually just apologized. 

Does she want me to explain a restaurant and what front of house does when there’s a problem?

We’ve been customers for years. And every once in a while we order via Uber Eats.

And I don’t understand how your own kitchen doesn’t know that this comes with linguine or any kind of pasta that’s plain that you put the calamari over?

But above all else, I don’t do rude on the phone. And again she would not have gotten an edge in my voice if she had just been polite to me instead of me getting the whole attitude if she doesn’t really want to be there on a Sunday night and talk to anybody on the phone or help people.

I am attaching photos, so you see.

When employees have attitudes like that it makes it less likely that people actually want to come into your restaurant. 

Here is the photo of what was delivered:

Here is what I ordered from the menu:

You will note I did NOT ask for a refund. I’m still not asking for a refund. But if someone who’s been a pretty long-term customer, I’d like an apology.

Just a simple “We’re sorry that happened. ”

I have emailed them twice and have not gotten a response. So I’m posting this.

buckle up east whiteland. a tsunami is arriving over data centers.

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I saw this on social media and felt I should share it here

So a few days ago, a letter was discovered:

That got a very big WTF response out of me. I don’t know maybe they don’t see dead people in this township but they see dead plans don’t they? I was actually seriously disappointed to discover this letter existed. It’s kind of like it makes you wonder if everyone knows what’s going on in East Whiteland Township again and that’s horrible to feel. Makes me sad because they have come so far.

From the beginning, even though I really like two of the supervisors (not Peter Fixler) and the township manager and most of the staff, I felt everything involving this data center was somewhat odd and off.

And I will note in the arena of people I like at East Whiteland Township, people I wish that weren’t here that I do not know and do not care to know is the Assistant Township Manager Catherine Ricardo. Essentially my opinion is they made a mistake when they hired East Vincent’s former mistake of a manager…and yes, she was the manager when the zoning change went in at Pennhurst wasn’t she? As in where they are fighting a giant data center, so how can residents in East Whiteland even begin to trust her? Also isn’t it a bit strange that somebody would go for being a manager to an underling/assistant manager?

But I digress.

This letter that was discovered lends itself to everything that Ginny Kerslake has said.

https://www.facebook.com/share/1Ark7GzwnR/?mibextid=wwXIfr

It’s been an education dealing with data centers. It is even worse in a lot of ways than when people were fighting the pipelines a few years ago.

(State Rep Danielle Otten, I will take this opportunity to politely remind you that that’s why you were elected, remember? To fight for the people, not to capitulate to things like data centers? I won’t bother to remind State Rep Kristine Howard of anything because she does nothing. They apparently share office space and a data center disease or something?)

Anyway, next comes this letter from the special counsel solicitor dude:

What I have to say to that is, predictable. Communities upstate dealing with this guy as a special counsel weren’t enamored of him before East Whiteland rolled up and hired him. It’s like every time something happens to show this township why they are wrong and people tell them how they can correct it, they double down on the wrong part, don’t they? (Yes, I can have that opinion and it took me a long time to verbalize it because I just didn’t want to believe it was happening.)

Now the funny thing is what’s happening now is what I said would happen in East Whiteland when they started this process around 2018.

East Whiteland never should’ve approved this in any way shape or form. They should have sent the stock picker packing back to Willistown. Let him put a data center on his property, not in a neighboring township. (Green Fig’s Charlie Lyddane is from Willistown correct?)

East Whiteland is digging in their heels over their Waterloo. Maybe I should specify their latest Waterloo because things like Bishop Tube aretube are still alive in this township aren’t they how many years later?

I also have to wonder if there were five supervisors on this board if everyone would still be dealing with this? Under the Second Class Township code they can have up to five supervisors so why don’t they? I will note I suggested that years ago and was told it wasn’t necessary. I don’t know the process, but it is possible to get this on a ballot as a referendum item and if the majority of the people vote in a main election like in the fall, they could get five supervisors.

Again, I said East Whiteland would face a people tsunami over data centers as an issue. And it’s lapping at their proverbial shores. And that is in spite of people feeling like they’re being intimidated at meetings by certain guests of the developers panel, etc. and isn’t that true?

I will note I am pretty much an observer here. I am not driving the people tsunami bus. But I knew it would come. This is too bad and big an issue and it’s a nationwide issue as well.

East Whiteland still can do the right thing and say no. They actually can but will they? Or does more of a tsunami have to lap at the shores?

Allow me to share something from the residents fighting:

Meanwhile, in places like Limerick, residents, planning friendraisers to fight their data center are finding local businesses like MaGerk’s in Royersford I guess it is canceling their events.

https://patch.com/pennsylvania/limerick/fundraiser-stop-data-centers-limerick-canceled-over-significant-safety

This data center flight is getting supremely ugly and I don’t know if places like East Whiteland just don’t get it, but people aren’t backing down.

I leave you with Andrew Schneider‘s presentation from the recent East Whiteland meeting once again. I hope the media keeps following this.

We don’t want data centers around here. And at its most basic that is not a NIMBY statement, it’s practical. We can’t afford it from an energy bill and basic supply perspective. We can’t afford it from a water perspective, and that is separate from the rest of the environmental impacts. Data centers are just about the profits of other people outside our communities. It’s not about residents. I mean, maybe East Whiteland Supervisor Peter Fixler would like a data center in his backyard since he thinks data centers are silent, but who am I but a mere mortal and female to ask that question?

But I have been thinking about this, and many years ago, they told all of us at the Save Ardmore Coalition that we would never stop eminent domain for private gain. As a matter of fact, I had a commissioner at the time (who was also a lawyer/lobbyist in Harrisburg once upon a time) wag a finger in my face for a couple of minutes literally spitting mad in front of a congressman saying they were getting the eminent domain through. That was after a public meeting on eminent domain held at a local college.

Eminent Domain didn’t happen and half of the board of commissioners was replaced as a result.

Fortitudo.

#NODATACENTERS (pass it on.)