All my 70 years of life as a Maine resident, I’ve been confused that expansion, development, more pavement and more jobs and more people equals progress.
I enjoyed the recent very clear Maine Voices column for both its critique of all of us financing “experts” from away and the ridiculous mindset that more is better (“Maine Voices: Calls for aggressive housing development miss bigger picture,” Oct. 15). Whether it be the author’s stated points of water supply (a good thing), traffic congestion (a bad thing), or increased taxes due to growth, the column was right on. Just name one large, developed area that has benefited from growth. Try.
And, by the way … who eliminated the state planning office? I’d like to know. If it were still active, would we need, or care, to spend thousands of our dollars on out-of-state “experts”? Ugh.
Peter Brown
Freeport
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