LEDGER FORUM
Having read many of the letters printed pertaining to the Westerly Road Church’s proposed site on Princeton Pike and professing not to have any answers to the debate, I have several questions for all to consider.
What good is restoring a pre-Revolutionary home on the Battlefield Corridor, not to mention one belonging to a predominant Maidenhead resident, if the surroundings are not taken into context?
What is the purpose of spending money and time researching and creating a Master Plan if the zoning board does not stick to it?
Should not a long term vision conceived by experts prevail as supremely beneficial to future generations?
Is anything inherently beneficial enough to infringe upon open space areas among which the Westerly Church proposes to occupy?
Should the people who chose this lovely area in which to reside and invest accept that variances will be granted for purposes other than residential in areas zoned as such?
Is the traffic that the Westerly Church would add to the already unbearable traffic situation be acceptable?
Is the Westerly Church so inherently beneficial to the community that it should put up with the ensuing traffic nightmares resulting from the construction?
What precedents would be set by granting a variance to the Westerly Church, allowing it to install itself in an area zoned EPII?
Is it our goal to develop every bit of space unpreserved space left in the township?
Do we constantly need to chip away at what is intrinsically beautiful to satisfy our never ending desire to "better" things?
I do sincerely hope that the Lawrence zoning board will have the fortitude necessary to adhere to the Master Plan and do what is in the best interest of the Lawrence community.
Jan Walson
Province Line Road