To the editor:

Hooray for Jennifer Gavilondo. At last, someone is speaking to the real “heartburn” issue of the Aldi store proposal: it’s not in character with the historic village. It looks like a modern appendage to an old town (which it would be). The board and the developer are debating sewerage and parking, but no one talks about what it would look like.

This need not be. New can harmonize with old, but it takes some imagination and effort. In Freeport, Maine, you can only buy one color of exterior house paint: the planning board has decreed that all structures should be of that color. In Beijing, China, there is a McDonald’s disguised as a train station. Why couldn’t Cazenovia have an Aldi’s that looks like an old country store?

Don Doherty

Cazenovia