Friends of Normanside Needs 500 Signatures by 2/14/11

With Bank of America quickly working to foreclose on and auction off Normanside Country Club, there is a fast growing group of concerned Bethlehem residents who would like to see the land preserved.

If you share this sentiment, please do the following:

1) Sign the Petition and email all your friends to do the same

Copy and paste the language below and email it, with your name and address, to friendstopreservenormanside@gmail.com

"We, the undersigned residents of the Town of Bethlehem, request that the town take an active role to ensure the Normanside Country Club property remains either an operating golf course or a public natural recreational space to benefit the residents of the Town of Bethlehem."

2) Like Friends of Normanside on Facebook

3) Help spread the word on Facebook, Twitter and email

4) Download Friends to Preserve Normanside Petition and gather signatures. Send an email for instructions on getting the petition to us.

5) Download Friends to Preserve Normanside Letter to Attach, Sam Messina.

Comments

[Fred C. Burdick, 69 Mosher Rd., Delmar, NY]

OK,

Sam Messina,

Let's do your best for Town of Bethlehem. Normanside CC is a real asset for our
town. Certainly Bethlehem Leadership can do the right thing.

Thanks.

[Concerned Citizen]

Mr. Messina, and members of the town board, PLEASE do the right thing -- let private land stay that way, on the tax rolls and use the wonderful new zoning and comprehensive plan that we all fought so hard for. This town cannot afford, no matter how well the funds are hidden, to lose one more tax-paying parcel to be maintained and operated by the town. If a country club and golf course, and let's face it, a private park for the surrounding neighborhoods, can't make it financially well enough to pay their bills, something else needs to be done. Don't be afraid to let our system work for us -- that land can be used in accordance with the zoning to be an asset to this community. Isn't that what the revised zoning and Comp Plan were done for? Better growth and planning for success -- take this parcel under town ownership or off the tax rolls through some conservancy scheme is just wrong for this town's citizens -- 550 people from who knows where signed this petition? How about the rest of us who don't want to pay more in taxes so that land use can be restricted. So, please our town officials, do the right thing and let capitalism and private land ownership take its course.

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