Reader says High Density housing is profitable.

Reader says High Density housing is profitable.

Battle lines have not been drawn. The citizens group is not in a battle with developers and never has been. They are trying to urge the Planning Board to proceed cautiously and keep in mind what the long term effects of changing the zoning in large areas of town will lead to. This is about the potential for more developments down the road.

What most people don’t understand, is that by asking for densities that are way above what our village currently allows, there is no easy way to accommodate these developments. Our Planning Board must create a much larger zone ( more than 3x larger than these 4 developments ) and they must change the densities in this entire zone. By doing this, any property owner within this new zone (like Ulrich kitchens, Becker Body and Fender Co., or Brake-O-Rama) can be developed into a high density housing complex. High Density housing is profitable.

Who is to say that these properties will not develop once the law has changed and the opportunity is presented? We would all be foolish not to consider what our town will look like when all of these properties have been built up. At the end of the day these four developments are just a drop in the bucket. It is what comes next that we should be cautioning our PB to examine.