Posted by Ed on October 5, 2007, 2:34 pm Maybe open meetings don’t bring thousands of people rushing into town hall BUT we care. The lives of the young parents, the working class, the sports programs, the retired lives may not jive with a meeting, for example, the night before school opens!!! No one today has time to go to meeting after meeting and hear the same old pitch for “the good of our town”— Both ideas are not welcome— and are so far removed from our every thought that just telling outsiders about these ideas brings shock, laughter, and wow “anything goes in Billerica.” Want to put a Home Depot in Billerica — go to the Concord Rd exit — go to any near-by exit— don’t make us a first. Want to clean up our mall—sit down and discuss it with heart and thoughts of our community — discuss shops, stores, restaurants, boutiques, etc —discuss a mall — not a giant ugly store that brings traffic, large trucks, and junk to the parking lot. Want to discuss energy? Discuss clean energy. Discuss windmills. The power plant folks why don’t you tell us what you are really planning? Answer — to release pollution into our air to give more energy to Boston and other communities. You are not welcome here. Both the mammoth store and the environmentally-hazardous plant. What don’t you understand??? I beg the town officials to stop all action in both these matters. Find a loophole. Find the Master Plan. Get a lawyer. Do something. We are being destroyed little by little. There will be no open space soon. Apartments are shooting up everywhere. Schools are over crowded. We can’t take care of what we have and now you want more problems??? Take a step back. Re-evaluate what we will be in five years. If we allow these two big money-hungry, selfish businesses to come in here then picture our town and reputation down the road. We have regressed if you let this happen. Please for the children’s lives, and the respect of our children for our decisions today, think what you are doing Jane Burns
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To the editor:
I still don’t understand and will never understand how the thought of a Home Depot store in the center of town got this far. I still don’t understand and will never understand the thought of a huge power plant in this town. Again, I still don’t understand and will never understand why these ideas ever got to be discussed as a possibility. Where are our elected and appointed officials ? What are they thinking? Don’t they realize our concerns? Our anger?
This has gone on too long.
Do not even think about it.
You do not belong in our community.
Taxes will not be reduced as we are so far beyond salvaging what we have it takes every volunteer to even help our town look good. Look good? That’s another discussion.
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