The thing that bothers me about this whole case is that there are people who oppose this project, which given an opportunity to present testimony or questions during a conditional use hearing, would be rejected under state legal guidelines.

I have seen these anti-rail yard signs in people's yards nowhere near the proposed location.

This should be about the immediate neighborhood, not someone in School Lane Hills or miles away...

Except that there will be no zoning hearings and no testimony and no legal guidelines because this project involves the railroad which does not have to conform to or obey any local zoning ordinances.

The TRRAAC website has aerial views of the proposed location with circumference lines showing distances, FYI

I love those circumference line maps. On the F&M proposed site, it shows School Lane Hills on the outer of the one mile circle. The TRRAAC proposed site shows the entire NW quadrant of the city in the one-mile circle. Hmmm.... better? But they do use the issue of "traffic nightmare". Straws, gentlemen and ladies, straws.

I just took a look at the TRRAAC website. It is quite the collection of unsupported bs and personal opinion. I particularly love how the train is going to disrupt picnics at Long's Park. Really? I highly doubt it. You won't hear anymore train noise there than you do now. And they don't believe it should be built because it doesn't compliment High's proposed shopping development......but wait, aren't these the same people who are against that also? And look at their main map.....it also shows the yard is quite a distance from any house. They conveniently labeled the school lane hills residential neighborhood, but must have forgotten to label all the city residencial neighborhoods. Ooops, they must have over looked that. But when you refer to the city as "unestablished" neighborhoods as their leader has, I guess that's what you get.

Franklin and Marshall, Incorporated. And all this time I thought the place was a college... The stock market is tanking and I'd bet dollars to diplomas that F&M's endowment is heavily invested in it. F&M's endowment is paltry when you think about it... lot's of grad who go on to lucrative careers. Even if they were not wealthy going in. It always 'wonders' me why their endowment is so disproportionately low when stacked up against their graduates' earnings. Could it be that the grads are just as disillusioned and dissatisfied with Fry's leadership and show it by withholding contributions?

As the market drops every day, I am sure the anxiety and uncertainty of where the money is coming from for these non-educational projects of his. So I am not surprised that Fry and crew are ramping up their rhetoric and now name-calling opposing lawyers 'incompetent.' When they start to get down and dirty, you KNOW that they are concerned about the financing that may have well been lost in the past month on Wall Street. I'm betting they are in the throes of throwing their last big weight around before their endowment crash is exposed. And when they run out of money.... guess whose pockets they will be picking to do the funding via a city that rolls over and plays possum. Why, yours of course! Fry sat as a volunteer on the convention board to help smash it through; the city owes him and where does the city get its money? I know, dumb question. College's endowments are shrinking across the board because of the Stock Market disaster. Thoughts from many quarters are that some college's have lost 20% or more already. It should be an interesting "President's Report" if their fiscal year ends with them having to reveal their losses.