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Picture worth a few words about development
Letters to the Editor
Published November 18, 2005
Re: Mist of Morning, Nov. 11
First, I would like to thank you for your coverage of issues concerning the rush of development and its impacts in our area.
Second, I definitely wanted to applaud you for selecting such a beautiful picture for the cover page. I cannot remember seeing a photograph that better expressed the mood of a Florida morning this time of year.
However, this picture would have been a great opportunity to show residents what beauty they are about to lose, as it shows part of what may become the Harvest Creek development, a huge chunk of land (about 580 acres) soon to be developed with hundreds of thousands of square feet of light industrial, retail and single- and multifamily units, if the County Commission approves.
Not only will this project greatly add to our already disastrous traffic, infrastructure and school situation, but by being built upon and covered with concrete and asphalt, it will not be able to store enough moisture to create this beautiful morning fog.
This is a sign of poor environmental quality because less absorption equals more stormwater runoff, with all its pollutants.
Again, thank you for your coverage of these issues, making people more aware of what impact we are having on the creation we are a part of and depend on.
-- Antonia Singleton, Riverview
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