Re: SG-W:/ Newmarket

[Smileysmlc@aol.com]

    The are a few areas in the City of Detroit in which a Newmarket-type 
development would be quite appropriate (and very welcome).  Send 'em there!  
(I would even work with the developer to help line up the properties).
    Unfortunately, if approved, it sounds as if Newmarket will be the 
deathknell for any reasonable land use in Pittsfield Township.  If the 
residents and Township officials allow the Newmarket development to go in, 
they should simultaneously raise the property taxes to pay for all of the 
roads, schools and infrastructure which will be needed.  
    Canton Township has continually raised taxes after becoming exceedingly 
pro-development.  I can't imagine any community wanting to emulate the bad 
planning in Canton.  School overcrowding, traffic jams, and taxes are 
up--open space, water quality, and just about all quality of life issues are 
down.
    I guess I just don't understand why anyone would deliberately choose to 
repeat mistakes.

Jack Smiley


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