Posted by Caroline on January 23, 2007, 12:22 pm, in reply to "Letter to the Editor Link" Developers nationwide are eyeballing every inch of "open space" without regard for the long-term effects on our communities, which they will leave behind while counting their profits. The unfortunate part is the state is allocating taxpayers' money to encourage these developments and Massachusetts is one of only two states in the nation to do so. Massachusetts is now a developers' feasting ground for profit, at our expense, and the state lawmakers and courts are reinforcing their right to feast upon the struggling taxpayer's back and tell us it is necessary or for our own good. Many have become brainwashed into believing this. This year's elections will provide the future of our area relating to our "quality of life" and whether we wish to remain here and raise our children or grow old. Those running for the available seats, on all local town boards, will have a great impact on these factors. Although we all must deal with today's modern rapid-paced lives, if we choose to neglect what some may call reasonable economic development, we may wake up someday and find short-term thinking does not seem so reasonable because they did not choose to consider the long-term effects of these proposals. Power plants, forced 40B housing, and towns asking taxpayers to purchase land so as to preserve the land from developers who are holding town officials hostage with state law, these issues should concern all of us. The right representation is now more urgent than ever, because once our area is destroyed it can never return to the beauty it once possessed. I am hoping to encourage any civic-minded individuals with the foresight to see long-term to run for these seats, or please be sure to at least pay attention and get out and vote for someone who does. Anyone who would like to search deeper into community concerns should access http://www.chapa.org/resources_publications.htm and at least browse these documents to see what many envision for our communities. A handful of concerned citizens have started two sites in hope of encouraging legitimate discussion, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BillericaWatchers/ and http://members6.boardhost.com/BillericaCommun/, and welcome input from all concerned. Our area's future has reached a volatile crossroad, and the decisions should be left up to the taxpayers, not the Beacon Hill bureaucracy. The future is in your hands. ED CAMPLESE Billerica
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The future of our communities is in our hands
The Lowell Sun
Lowell Sun
Article Last Updated:01/18/2007 12:09:40 PM EST
To concerned taxpayers of Billerica and all surrounding towns, I cannot express enough the importance of the upcoming town elections. Billerica, for one, has extremely crucial seats opening up that will shape the future of our community. We are not alone as surrounding towns and their residents are facing the same decision, whether we would like to remain as residents and grow old here, or even, can this area retain the same quality it once possessed in which to raise our families? This area of the state was where many worked diligently to seek out the "American Dream" and provide a better future for our children and comforts for ourselves in our elder years as we escaped the gridlock of the city. State laws and greed (not free enterprise or real capitalism) has reared its ugly head and threatens to turn our wondrous rural settings into concrete and hardtop to push their many conflicting agendas.
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