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I read Mariza Leff’s letter (“No to low-income housing,” Aug. 15) with
alarm, but since my house hasn’t been burgled and the only graffiti
comes from the previous owner’s kids, I figured I was safe.
EDITOR,
I read Mariza Leff’s letter (“No to low-income housing,” Aug. 15) with alarm, but since my house hasn’t been burgled and the only graffiti comes from the previous owner’s kids, I figured I was safe.
Imagine my dismay when Susan Retten (“Income comfort questions,” Aug. 22) suggested there might be low-income people in my neighborhood. A quick survey revealed disheartening results.
Those two local women who provided five years of day care? One sometimes uses food banks and the other loves thrift stores — even more of a low-income magnet than Target. Uh-oh.
And that neighborhood family we shared carpools and play dates with? She was a stay-at-home mom and he was just getting started as a pastor. No real money there. Thank goodness they moved away so they could afford a house.
Even more frightening are my 82-year-old mother’s caregivers. Sure, the job requires heaps of patience and understanding, but it can’t pay very much.
Then there’s the preschool, where some parents not only asked for but — gasp! — eceived financial aid. Low-incomers for sure.
And what about all those waiters, grocery store clerks, gas station attendants and recent college graduates I keep running into? I sure hope they live somewhere else.
All I’ve got to say is that this exposure to low-income types has me plenty worried. I mean, is there a vaccine we can take? And if I find graffiti on the kids, how do I get it off?
Ronald Bourret, Mount Hermon
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Please, please, people of Felton and the SLV, please focus on the environmental problems with the site.
To me, the likely damage to the local environment is the real issue. This project, if built, will be around for 150 years or longer. There is inadequate storm drainage, no use of the SLVWD water system that many of you fought for, no safe public sewer system, and inadequate space and poor soils for on-site sewage disposal (read that as fancy treatment plant and drainfields.) THOSE ARE THE BIGGEST ISSUES.