When does the insanity end? What kind of justification could the Sussex County Planning & Zoning Commission possibly present for such a monstrous development to be placed on an already overcrowded two-lane road (hardly a highway!) is beyond my comprehension.
The July 11 editorial cartoon had the situation down pat. What used to be a delightful, serene and picturesque area is beginning to feel much more like a bustling metropolis, complete with traffic-clogged roads, inability to find doctors willing to take on even more patients (unless they are willing to pay concierge fees) along with overpopulated schools.
These new developments are definitely not geared toward the people who are the most in need of affordable housing, but rather to those who are paying high prices for their McMansions sitting atop one another on small lots, allowing the developers to squeeze in as many sales as possible. It's one thing to be taking over former farmland, already expansive enough to be prepared for the bulldozers, but to tear down total forests that provide for our diminishing wildlife and needed shade for our increasingly hotter climate, and to then name the new development a preserve of some sort, totally boggles the mind!
There needs to be a complete ban on more home construction until the infrastructure has been brought up to 21st century standards, more schools and health facilities have been built, and the people in charge of allowing these runaway train wrecks to continue are replaced (and not associated with developers and Realtors in any capacity). I have a disturbing feeling that Sussex County leaders won't be happy until every single piece of property has been developed, and there is nothing left of comfort and pastoral beauty. Please tell me I'm wrong.
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