It took over twenty years — 1950 to 1971 — to get the "new" Greenwich High School built, so why should anyone have expected a hockey rink to be approved after just 15?

maybe someone will donate his backyard

RTM reject the 117th plan for a replacement rink, placing the arena back on thin ice.

Nothing new under the sun here, we’re famous for these neighborhood squabbles. The high school was delayed for decades as various factions fought it out: One school, or two; east side of town, west side, or center? Everyone finally grew too tired of the dispute to continue, so they settled on building a single school, on a swamp. We’re still trying to remediate the consequences of that compromise.

My guess is that, with costs continuing to escalate, the town’s finally going to discover that it’d be far cheaper to build a Space X launching facility and go with that.