Comments on: Court Reverses Zoning Board on Proposed New-build Near Peace Bridge

By: bflofirst

bflofirst — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 03:51:54 +0000

fantastic. and shame on the buffalo news for all the bad reporting and mostly non reporting on this issue. Thanks goodness we have ArtVoice who actually does some investigations and reports facts.

By: Rick Tracelent

Rick Tracelent — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 21:52:15 +0000

Mr. Kane, Manuel Moroun, and others at Ambassador Bridge;
Please address the following code violations at Tee to Green and the Tonawanda Street properties that you own:
1.) Repair the fence breaches on the Scajaquada Trail side
2.) Remove the graffiti
3.) Secure and/or improve the buildings upon the property
4.) Cut the grass
Since you are an absentee owner and out of town, there are many companies who provide this service should you require any assistance in addressing these code violations. Their numbers are in the phone book and online under “property maintenance” and “landscaping”.

City Housing Court can also provide direction to resources later should you be unable to find them soon.

Thank you, and good luck in your future endeavors!

By: Jim Kane

Jim Kane — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:09:53 +0000

Re Disclosure: In the interest of full disclosure, who are you?

By: John Q Blogger

John Q Blogger — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 22:57:59 +0000

Amen Kathy.

Right on Al!

Thanks Sam Hoyt and David Rivera!

By: Disclosure

Disclosure — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:11:44 +0000

In the interest of full disclosure Jim Kane represents the Ambassador Bridge. Read about how they conduct their bridge business in Detroit/Windsor in this article http://www.metrotimes.com/editorial/story.asp?id=14056

By: Kathy

Kathy — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:06:06 +0000

“Arbitrary” and “Capricious” and oh sooooo blatantly political says it all. Once again Mayor Brown has showed his hand in favor of the half-baked PBA expansion project by allowing his appointees on the Zoning Board to cut loose with their ridiculous decision. The Mayor wants to turn 45 acres of the west side into a trucking zone instead of embracing neighborhood development. Does anyone question why?

The public has learned that every time the PBA has been legally challenged, they have lost. But since the taxpayers foot the retainer for Kavinoky and Cook, the legal eagles for the PBA, the bridge authority is happy to waste our hard earned money subsidizing their arrogance. They just keep adding it to the $50 million tab they started running up 20 years ago. Until our elected officials demonstrate the political will to stop them, the PBA will keep feasting off of our tax dollars.

When is enough ENOUGH?

By: blight me

blight me — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 20:40:06 +0000

The Zoning Board, Buffalo News and several public officials owe Al Coppola an apology for all the name calling they’ve shoveled out over the past few years. Clearly, there is something very wrong with city ordinances that further the ‘ghettoizing’ on Buffalo’s West Side. I wonder if elected officials who support this despicable practice understand the definition of ‘lunacy’. Oops…isn’t this an election year for the Mayor?

By: Jim Kane

Jim Kane — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 20:23:27 +0000

And you are?

By: not ron rienas

not ron rienas — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:29:26 +0000

Ambassador Bridge & Jim Kane, take responsibility for your property before casting stones at the PBA.

Ambassador Bridge bought properties on Tonawanda Street under false pretenses and straw-man company names. These properties have suffered mysterious fires, been overgrown and neglected. Ambassador Bridge properties are graffiti-strewn and hazardous to the community and adjacent to the Bike Path.

Tee to Green owned by Ambassador was torched, they did nothing except ignore it. Ambassador is worse to the community than the PBA.

By: peterjoe

peterjoe — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:37:44 +0000

How many YEARS does it take for the Public Bridge Authority–and especially the ridiculous posturing of Chief Operating Thug Ron Reinas–to become the PUBLIC JOKE they realy are?

And The Zoning Board of Appeals, using the rationale they did for denial of variance; talk about serving up a creampuffI’ve heard more carefully reasoned arguments in grade school playgrounds. No, not recently, I mean when I was in grade school.

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:00:45 +0000

The judge’s statement, “the city’s ordinances weren’t changed by the PBA’s plans,” seems to rely on the law, not on any recognition of “havoc wreaked…,” etc.

By: Jim Kane

Jim Kane — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:19:35 +0000

Congratulations to Mr. Coppola for having the courage of his convictions to take on “The Great Publicly Funded – But Not Public – Bridge Authority” and their so-called “juggernaut” of a transportation project more aptly described as the new “Bridge to Nowhere.”

The “Juggernauts” in charge the PBA have now wasted $50 MILLION of our U.S. Federal tax dollars on an “umpteen” number of environmental studies, plaza workshops, bridge design “charettes”, Bi-National public panels and all the expenses associated with paid lobbyists, public relations, advertising firms, a gaggle (no pun intended) of lawyers, and political contributions meant to keep their 20 years of failure well funded for how many more years?

If the statement “the authority would just have to add his property to those subject to acquisition.” isn’t arrogant enough for the political leadership in this community to take notice and put an end to our tax money supply — then thank God for one man willing to stand up for justice and another Judge who recognizes the havoc wreaked on a community that has been all but abandoned by our elected representatives. They may be our only hope.