Our day in court

Preferential treatment is not confined to college admissions scandals.
The Village of Warwick went out of their way to accommodate permitting a very large bar in our very quiet neighborhood.
The zoning that protects surrounding homes was ignored to the benefit of longtime merchants. Longtime residents were ignored.
Pedestrians, dog walkers and sympathetic motorists stop constantly at our homes and ask how this blight could have happened in Warwick.
The trees at 16 Elm were clear-cut in a breech of the approved site plan but no violation will be issued.
The actions of all three parties, the property owner, proposed bar owner and village can’t stand the light of day.
The village boards bent every rule and leaned over backwards to serve developers and condemn our homes to extraordinary noise, lights and odors.
At this point it’s clear to all residents what happens when old boy planning boards chuckle and backslap a permit into existence.
Our own Village of Warwick (named in the residents lawsuit) the village we trusted and loved is looking on while an effort is made to get the lawsuit we were forced to file dismissed.
The lawyers for the property owners, developer and village say our suit is harassment and that the bank will not proceed while its pending.
All it would have taken was some consideration by the property owner for the neighbors at the outset and 28 months of grief could have been avoided.
Now we just want our day in court.
Patrick Gallagher
Warwick