Pinthouse Pizza
Conflict Not With Students but Developers
RECEIVED Thu., Feb. 9, 2012
Dear Editor,
Re: "A Plea for 'Balanced Density'" [News, Feb. 10]: In the article, Mr. Michael McHone tries to characterize those of us in the neighborhood association as recent arrivals, who are causing conflicts with students:
"Right now we're in a period, and we have been for several years, where we have people moving in with families, and that is creating conflicts with the students that have been there a long time."
This is simply untrue. I've lived in my single-family house since 1976, and I'm not the longest-residing member of our neighborhood. I knew and welcomed the fact that there were students here when I moved in, and I have for the most part happily coexisted with them for 35 years.
The conflict is not with the students. It is with developers who, in my view, have no regard for anyone or anything except maximizing their profit.
Re: "A Plea for 'Balanced Density'" [News, Feb. 10]: In the article, Mr. Michael McHone tries to characterize those of us in the neighborhood association as recent arrivals, who are causing conflicts with students:
"Right now we're in a period, and we have been for several years, where we have people moving in with families, and that is creating conflicts with the students that have been there a long time."
This is simply untrue. I've lived in my single-family house since 1976, and I'm not the longest-residing member of our neighborhood. I knew and welcomed the fact that there were students here when I moved in, and I have for the most part happily coexisted with them for 35 years.
The conflict is not with the students. It is with developers who, in my view, have no regard for anyone or anything except maximizing their profit.
Ronald M. Sawey