Letter: Why does vineyard get to sidestep the rules?

Posted 9/21/17

To the editor:

I was glad to see that the Stone House Club was held accountable for their failure to follow the application requirements for their entertainment license. It was heartening to see …

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Letter: Why does vineyard get to sidestep the rules?

Posted

To the editor:

I was glad to see that the Stone House Club was held accountable for their failure to follow the application requirements for their entertainment license. It was heartening to see that money and influence were not able to sidestep the rules in this case.

So how is it that after at least two years of being a thorn in the side of the Little Compton community, Carolyn's Sakonnet Vineyard was allowed to hold their entertainment while willfully refusing to abide by the ruling of both the Agricultural Trust and the Town Council that requires the vineyard to plant noise and sound blocking shrubbery and other measures to reduce the impact on the neighboring landowners?

Who was supposed to check to see if they did what they were ordered to do before allowing the music to happen?

It is time to elect town officials to “have the back” of the people of Little Compton in more ways than in just keeping taxes low.

Suzanne St. Amour

Little Compton

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