Mr. Goetz, I think you might be the one along with serveral of the board members that have lost reality here. First, let me say when the road was redone in 2000, if they would have listened to the public works staff, this would not be an issue now on the condition of the road. Second why keep on investing on the downtown? I have been a long time village resident and do not see this ever coming back and it was a long long time ago that there was anything like a downtown. It is not going to come back anymore. Please look at what we currently have and maintain it only. There were other ways of working the traffic through main street. One was clover drive but instead, stop signs are now put up at every intersection. Completely not thinking this through and how it will cause great loss to the residents of main street is not right by you and the members of your board who support this plan. But wait you signed the recall petition so you and the others that signed the petition are good at spending money without thinking the whole process through and do not care who it hurts. So I please ask you to use some common sense on this issue and start focusing on what you are going to do help the west end of town and keep the current business's here and help bring new ones in. I keep seeing this downtown plan but what about the westend plan? Do you have one?

There is the arrogant misconception by the village board that the public is confused about the downtown redevelopment plan. How much have the plans and design cost so far? You are proceeding along this path. Quit try to smoke screen the fact that this is a done deal. If the last reconstuction of main street was asphalt paving, why is it concrete. More smoke! Does your plan include buying the residencial homes along Main Street? Where is the room going to come from for the road expansion by 10'? Once you put your round about in at village hall, and piggly Wiggly cant get deliveries what will be left in the central core of the village? Some auto rpair shops and a pizza place. Great downtown! I guess we have to do the mandated items on your list. If the DNR requires opening up the creek is there any stae money to pay for this? Why do we have to prepare Main street for the next 50 years? Is it so this village board can have their legacy?
One last thought, How angry is the village board going to be when the recall of Scott Walker fails? And will that push them to disregard common sense and proceed with their arrogant, foolish, wasteful downtown plan

Wow, bringing political views into the discussion right away. We would be better served to discuss the merits of main street redevelopment and Goetz's statements than any board member's views on Walker.

I do hope they have enought room for the May 15th meeting. I suspect there will be LOTS of people who are upset that the engineers and board still do not seem to be listening to them. Basically what I heard is him stating is that 'we (the public) don't know what we want or what's good for us, so he and the almighty board will decide, but we can comment if it makes us feel better.'

What's happening with the cannery property? Isn't that a big part of the development plan? The village board should look into what they can do to help that along rather that worry about 3-4 hours a day of traffic congestion. I don't believe it is even that long. I have lived in the village for almost 40 years and seen it grow from a "biker" town to what it is today. I really can't say that this village board has the best interest of the residence in mind with all their downtown plans. The administration under the direction of Mike Knapp was spend crazy as well. The bump outs at the library are a good example. We sent the money to put them in then after the fact spent more money to make the smaller. I see this board going down the same road with the round about idea. After they are put in is the next board going to tear them out and put stop and go lights back in? It is a sad state of affairs.

I somewhat agree that the over-hyping of revitalizing "Downtown Sussex". What is downtown Sussex? Once you get passed Piggly Wiggly, there's some museum or something, a couple mechanics, Tony Maroni's pizza place, and.... hmm. That's about it. Once past Maple it's all office type buildings and more houses. Nothing that is going to bring people in to "Downtown Sussex".

The way people talk about "Downtown Sussex" you'd think there were dozens of little stores and things that need more business and it's a get place to go shopping. That couldn't be further from the truth. There is some retail on the far east end (Piggly Wiggly and then at Sports Bar Lane) and then there is some on the far west end in the strip mall by Ace and then again by Pick n Save. In between is nothing to attract anyone to anything.

Anyway, aside from that. As evidenced by the 6:00 shift of the meeting last week, lots of people are very confused about a number of things. People there were going off about how roundabouts are always a bad idea and expanding the road is awful and were basically blaming the engineers for ruining Sussex. The fact is, nothing has been decided yet. The engineers were simply asked to provide some options, so they did. The engineers are not Pro roundabouts or Anti roundabouts, they are just doing their job and providing options for people to look at and comment on. I believe that's what he means when he says it's not a "done deal".

I need to correct an earlier comment and apologize to Mr. Goetz. main street is asphalt not concrete

As I read through the comments posted on this subject I struggle to understand all of the negative emotions. The Sussex Village Board is being chastised for being transparent and trying to include the Communinity in their discussions and decision making process. The bottom line is that the Board is trying to help the Village prepare for the inevitable growth which will happen in the future. It seems to me that some of the negative folks posting comments should wander out of Sussex every once in a while and take a look at how other successful and growing communities are addressing both residential and commercial growth. The comments about the West end of Sussex are clearly biased and baseless, the West end of the Village has excellent access from Main and from 164, the real challenge is getting traffic to traverse Main Street and visit our businesses and promote future growth. That is exactly the challenge that our Village Officials are trying to help address.
Enough of the negativity, if you have suggestions that will help Sussex grow, bring them forward, that is what the Board is asking for. Change is heathy and is needed to continue to move Villages forward. I would suggest that anyone who has a negative comment to post should try to balance that with some kind of a solution. Everyone can just complain, that is easy and takes little effort, and it's pretty evident in many of the early posts. Try being constructive and help move Sussex forward positively.

Remember to vote out fake conservatives Goetz and Dietrich during the next election cycle. They signed the Walker recall.

They signed the recall ! They won't get my vote again those phoneys !