To the editor:
I want to thank my neighbors for their overwhelming response to the neighborhood meeting I hosted in opposition to the Broadway traffic plan and land-takings by eminent domain.
Over 60 neighbors came out to voice their opposition to the project.
Unfortunately, our voices are falling on the deaf ears of Mayor Jared Nicholson and City Councilor Wayne Lozzi.
Since 2018, neither Lozzi nor Nicholson has seen fit to hold a neighborhood meeting to hear our concerns that this project will forever change us from a neighborhood to a thoroughfare.
At our neighborhood meeting, instead of attending, listening, and expressing his point of view, Nicholson chose to disrupt it.
He dispatched his chief of staff to the meeting to do his bidding. While I was speaking, Chief of Staff Jon Thibault used poor judgment in choosing to interrupt me by talking at me while handing me a flier. He then continued to hand them out to those in attendance while I was still speaking. The flier announced that Nicholson and Lozzi were going to hold their own neighborhood meeting to counter our neighborhood meeting.
This behavior was disrespectful to our entire neighborhood and is another attempt by Nicholson and Lozzi to silence the people’s voices that are opposed to this project.
Sincerely,
Salvy Migliaccio
Lynn
(Salvy Migliaccio is a former president of the Lynn City Council.)
