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10 Planning October 199b
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<br /> Home Delivery Through rain or sleet, these communities will
<br /> fight to keep their post offices downtown. By Philip Langdon
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<br /> Madison, Connecticut, is a stamps too—at s'
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<br /> ner since 1939. "That's where 19aryland. .,
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<br /> the politicians hang out;that's si ____ .Y ■- ..„..4.
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<br /> drive east of New Haven.
<br /> At the foot of the outside to the first selectman.' a distribution facility that the regulatory board, objected to
<br /> stair leading to the building's About four years ago,postal U.S.Postal Service would erect the proposed encroachment on
<br /> double doors, the library sells officials decided that the 4,000- on some other site. a pond and nature area. Resi-
<br /> calendars and local organiza- square-foot building, with its The response was immedi- dents argued that the post of-
<br /> *ns solicit public support. oak-trimmed postal boxes and ate. Town officials criticized fice belonged downtown, an
<br /> ne man had a'listening post lobby mural depicting the liar- the barbed-wire-topped chain- easy stroll from coffee shops,
<br /> there,"says Madison planning vesting of salt hay in nearby link fence that the Postal Ser- the public library, a thriving
<br /> and zoning director William marshes, had become too vice intended to install around bookstore,and other local mer-
<br /> McMinn, AICP. "IIe asked cramped to function efficiently the mail trucks' parking lot. chants.
<br /> people for their opinions and and should be shut down. Its The Inland Wetlands Commis- After more than three years
<br /> suggestions,and reported back functions would be moved to sion, a local environmental of contention, the post office
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