Editor,

I attended the third and final meeting of the “Visions” Project for the Town & Village of Oxford on Tuesday night. I had missed the first two sessions and so the ‘goals’ of the village and town had already been established. Here is what I found:

Some ideas were proposed to widen sidewalks, hide parking areas and move buildings closer to a narrower Rt. 12 to create a continuous storefront for leisurely window shopping. I am not sure that 9 months out of the year I could be persuaded to window shop leisurely! These proposals, it was admitted, involved both public and private property. The same people who fear eminent domain when it comes to a gas drill passing a mile below the surface of their property, had no problem whatsoever with the thought of confiscating someone else’s private property, relocating proven viable existing businesses in the hopes of encouraging business growth (!?), and condemning both land & improvements to fit their myopic vision.