Green Project is No Good

Published in the Blue Stone Press, 9/7/2007

To the Editor:

As attendees at the last Marbletown Green meeting, we were aghast at the huge number of living units (300- 450) planned as the "economic reality" of creating the green hamlet proposed by this group.

There are many worrisome outcomes to a development this size, not the least of which is the traffic that will be generated at the already busy intersection of 213 and 209.

We left the meeting feeling manipulated by the words "green," "hamlet" and "community." This project screams big development with high financial incentives in the most worrisome sense, and if it comes to pass, will change this beautiful part of the world forever. There are many of us who hope there is some way to preserve the viable 200 year-old-orchard that currently exists on the property as well as to honor the landowner's desire to sell the land in a way that works for him as well as the community in which we all live.

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