LETTER: East Wareham zone change is ‘seriously short-sighted’
Wicked Local
To the Editor:
I urge the citizens of Wareham to reject the proposal to rezone land adjacent to Red Brook to make it available for the construction of hotels, casinos, and other commercial uses. Wareham currently possesses an inalienable birthright in the form of its forests, streams, and marshes, and it ought not to trade that birthright, as the Old Testament puts it, for a bowl of gruel.
Though I no longer reside in Wareham, I did live in East Wareham, right next to the proposed zoning changes, and I think it would be seriously short-sighted penny-wise and pound-foolish to allow the continued destruction of our local ecosystems for the sake of more pavement, and more sprawl.
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