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Mr. Taylor, your argument that the Palisades are a local issue is flat our wrong. When the Palisades were preserved, it was New York that put up the vast majority of the money to buy the land that you now wish to desecrate. New Jersey only put in $50,000 in 1900 to purchase the Palisades. New York allocated eight times that amount, $400,000.00, feeling that the investment would be a good way to preserve the natural appeal of the cliffs. A generation later, another New Yorker John D. Rockefeller purchased land atop the cliffs through shell corporations to prevent the type of visual ruin you now claim to have the right to exercise. Every municipality agreed, and your company bought the land knowing that to be the law. Your legal team then maneuvered its way into a shadowy agreement with the town, and those who seek to preserve the view shed are once again joining forces to stop, once and for all, this foolish effort.

Had New York (and New Yorker J.P. Morgan, who gave $125,000.00) not made that investment, the cliffs would look much like they do south of the GW Bridge. If the PIPC weren't an interstate commission, the decision would remain local. Its not local, never was, and has now become not just an interstate issue, but also a national and international one. LG will have to "Let Go" of this ill-conceived effort, and embrace what everyone else has, for a long, long time.