| How
long will it take you to get to Hwy 1? |
| A
few quotes from both sides of the issue. |
|
| "The property owners want to build and are going
to build, so we might as well be involved." Ellen Pirie |
| "It’s a good plan but
all the traffic will still bottleneck at the entrance to the village
at the stop light at the (Aptos Creek) bridge, that traffic already
backs up there and will only get worse". Nancy Huyck |
| "It’s all a mess around me now. It’s
not right to keep it the way it is." Giovanni Guerisoli |
| "This will be an Aptos-flavored
village for the people who live here," Jeff
Major, of San Jose-based Barry Swenson Builders, which
owns property behind the Bayview Hotel and hopes to build not only
commercial space in the village, but high-density housing to maximize
return on investment. |
| "While people aren’t crazy about development, there
seems to be an acknowledgment that something needs to be done,"
Ellen Pirie |
| "I just don't think a lot of those buildings
have any historical significance whatsoever," Richard
Huyck |
| "A new Aptos Village will be something visitors will want
to see, but they’re not going to be flying in from New York
to do so," John Hibble, Co-Executive Director,
Aptos Chamber of Commerce. |
| "We’ll make clear we
don’t want to create a Disneyland," Ellen Pirie |
| "It’s not necessarily going to be the
quaint village that has built up here over the past 50 to 100 years,
Only time will tell what it becomes." Peter Truman |
| "The ultimate
goal is to preserve the Village's visual character, so that we don't
have historic structures torn down and replaced with modern structures."
Ellen Pirie |
| "I hope the village doesn’t
get gentrified," Tina Grubbe |
