In America, statues are tom down and Founding Fathers’ names removed from schools, monuments, etc. because they reflect our past. Instead of celebrating that Americans saw the evil of slavery and ended it, those who do not empower their country’s history relish destruction.
In my hometown, Lewes, sheer greed is destroying an important part of America’s and Delaware’s history. National, state, county and local officials responsible for preserving The First Town in the First State must start paying attention. Action is needed to put our small city, her residents and history first, ahead of the almighty dollar.
Lewes and the Sussex County areas around it are being overbuilt. Why? Developers know that the high taxes and other unpleasant aspects of living in New Jersey, New York and Connecticut are motivating people to move to our beautiful, low-tax, southern coastal area.
Developers also know that the overdevelopment is straining an infrastructure that won’t be improved, e.g., roads, because there is no room to do so. Driving routes 1 and 24 is now a bad dream year-round. They become a nightmare during the tourist season. Somehow these destroyers are overlooking that their actions will be why the area starts to lose vacationers and full-time residents. Both groups are here for the beauty, relaxation offered and quality of life. All of those are being annihilated by overdevelopment
Now, further, highly egregious development is being sought. The proposed Fishers Cove subdivision is in an area where the existing homes are already suffering from flooding. Using the land that serves as a buffer between the wetlands and existing development to build more homes is insane. It stops the ability of our wetlands to absorb floodwaters, filter out pollution and expand naturally. These buffers help not only to reduce flooding and reduce pollution, but protect wildlife habitats.
Do not let greed do to this area what it did to the historic Fourth Street forest, destroy a good part of it.
It is time for politicians to do their job instead of fighting for individual and political party power. Your job is to work for the citizens living in the areas you were elected to serve. Other than greed, there is no rational reason to allow the destruction of Lewes and the surrounding area to continue. Chris Schell, Tim Tice and Justin Healy, the members of Burke & Rutecki LLC who want to develop Fishers Cove, may not support your re-election, nor vote for you in the future; but the grateful citizens in the Lewes area are more likely to do so.
Kathleen Dynan
Lewes
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