Suspecting that they were misinformed, we tried the Village Clerk. He advised that he did not have a copy of the zoning procedures but that he would locate one for us. Flying blind, we made a motion for a rehearing not knowing whether we were entitled to one or not. We were later advised that we were not. We have now ascertained that other villages in Nassau County permit a rehearing to both sides.
Personal conveniences have no place in the determination.
Yet the testimony was replete with irrelevant testimony. If permitted in our next letter we will make proposed recommendations to modernize and improve our antiquated procedures. Since our objective is to propose a reform of the procedures so that, if followed, an expensive and time consuming review by the Supreme Court, Nassau County would in many instances be obviated, the recently published ad hominem letter is rejected ex manu. On November 7, while in Florida for a business trip, I finished reading The Greatest Generation by Tom Brokaw. Often we best understand the present by looking back.