Last Thursday, when I visited Lower Saucon Township Council, I was astonished to see the biggest rabble rouser there was none other than the Lehigh Valley Partnership's very own Bert Daday. In several trips to the podium, he simultaneously complimented and chided Council..Ron Angle would have been very impressed.
Daday, and a room full of Colesville Road residents, were there to object to a new development called "Old Saucon." Everything in that gated community, except for a driveway to a proposed bank and restaurant, is located in Upper Saucon Township. So the Township waived the usual subdivision process.
That drove Daday nUtZ.
"Do we really need another restaurant?" he asked, prompting several Council members to remind him that the proposed restaurant is in another frickin' townshiip.
"You're advocating irresponsibility!" he thundered, arguing that a driveway from Colesville Road would increase traffic along Colesville Road and end the world as we know it.
Then, in his deepest baritone, he basically called council a bunch of crooks. "There must be some reason why this Council is so willing to accommodate this development."
Yeah, Bert. It's in another frickin' Township. Go call them a bunch of crooks.
Council was very nice to Daday, by the way.
