To the Editor:

Hank Robar: Enough is enough. I think you have made yourself perfectly clear. You are not happy with the fact that the Village of Potsdam didn’t rezone your property so that you could sell it to the Dunkin’ Donuts franchise.

Maybe they should have rezoned, but maybe you should have checked the zoning before purchasing residential property for a commercial enterprise.

You are also not happy that the village has forced you to fix or remove houses that were a danger to the public. Regardless, what’s done is done.

While some may have seen your first “garden” as an inventive free-speech statement, your latest constructions are nothing short of childish temper tantrums. Your hypocrisy is unbelievable. You show contempt for the village enforcing its code and the process for changing the code, yet you hide behind the village law and code to litter the village with the joke that stopped being funny several years ago. After all these years and public support you seem to have, I wonder why you’ve never run for village office to fix all the problems you see. Is it that it’s more fun and easier to complain and dress up toilets than to actually help your community?

The village has stated that suing you would be too expensive. The Village of Potsdam has roughly 9,000 residents. I suspect that at least half of the population is like me and tired of your tantrum and junkyards that mock the First Amendment. I’m going to stop at the village office tomorrow and donate $5 to be spent solely on the legal cost of removing your toilets. If half of the residents do the same thing, we could come up with around $22,000 to clean up your mess. I suspect that your defense might cost you a bit too.

Is this really what you want your legacy to be when you’re gone? “Hank Robar, the toilet guy who didn’t get his way.” Some people suspect that your plan on Pierrepont Ave. and across from Clarkson are really just sales techniques, so that a neighbor will buy the lots to get rid of the toilets. It’s a clever idea but not a very nice one.

I’ve got a nicer idea, donate the land to the village with the requirement they put up playgrounds or green spaces. That way the childish behavior can be left to the children and your legacy could be “Hank Robar, the philanthropist who made Potsdam a better place to live.”

Mike Zagrobelny

Norwood