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0 <br /> 10 Planning October 1998 <br /> P L A N N I N G <br /> • P R A C T I C E <br /> Home Delivery Through rain or sleet, these communities will <br /> fight to keep their post offices downtown. By Philip Langdon <br /> :, �4 lir <br /> i -- <br /> ImEnme <br /> 1 44., <br /> 3 <br /> 0 '•••••',- - 1'-';':.'----- -- ------- -'..'4,-— `. _ / , ."' ,. ,,,..,„„....- ,,- ""--,, d'r <br /> A compromise in Madison, Connecticut _ � lir�� - <br /> At <br /> ' 'Y tel f ,�( fill 46. <br /> n Saturday morn One-stop �� � y, <br /> ings,the most civic shopping. You li ! <br /> can buy cards, arA <br /> minded spot in gifts—oh yes, <br /> I <br /> EEty <br /> white-porticoed,Georgian-style st the new post f� k - � J <br /> Madison, Connecticut, is a too—at <br /> post office that has presided <br /> 111111i �office in <br /> 12* <br /> over downtown's busiest cor Edgewater, 461----r <br /> ner since 1939. "That's where Maryland. <br /> the politicians hang out;that's <br /> q{ ;, <br /> where you can get a petition " <br /> signed,"says Tom MacDonald, <br /> an architect in the prosperous <br /> town of 16,000, a half-hour's <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 /> ions solicit public support. oak trimmed postal boxes and ate. Town officials criticized fice belonged downtown, an <br /> One man had a'listening post' lobby mural depicting the har- 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- <br /> and zoning director William marshes, had become too vice intended to install around bookstore,and other local mer- <br /> Mc Minn, AICP. "He 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 <br />