Rein in Northstar, Coolspring Crossing before it’s too late
The following letter was sent to Sussex County Council and the Sussex County Planning Commission with a copy provided to the Cape Gazette for publication.
This letter is an emotional appeal to you to expand your imagination and consider a beautiful space where people can live in concert with nature, sharing our gifts and learning from one another. The kind of development our nation has been promoting for decades, if not centuries, has resulted in the kind of environmental disasters we are living through. Global warming is not going to stop unless we change our design methods and attitudes toward land, air, water and forests. As long as we continue depleting these resources on a massive scale, we continue endangering our very existence.
My desire to live in this area of the country was spurred by the beauty of the parks, the many nature preserves and the development protections I mistakenly thought were in place. As I witness repeated exceptions being granted to development requests, without including human needs, like exercise, fresh air, clean water, I realize the almighty dollar is the bottom line here too.
Please take seriously the threats to our planet. Do some research into advanced, healthy ways of increasing the capacity for humans to exist. We have access to environmentally friendly building methods. We have knowledge of methods to maintain clean air quality and restore healthy water systems. We have evidence of the devastating effects resulting from clear-cutting rainforests. We can do better. We can learn from our past mistakes and create communities that incorporate options for transportation other than automobiles. We can encourage and maintain old-growth forests rather than bulldozing them.
Please protect the forests and beaches and waterways that remain. The price for allowing development without restraints and parameters might be the ugly dystopian future of horror movies and children’s nightmares. Wouldn’t you rather be part of the leading voices that turned it all around and began more human and environmentally friendly development? Rein in Northstar and Coolspring Crossing before it’s too late!
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