Editor:
I read with interest the proposal by the new owners of Inglis House to buy a portion of what is essentially a public park (“Stonehurst owners offer to buy part of adjacent Town lot,” Aug. 14). Be it commercially zoned, the sell-off of community assets to further the bank accounts of well-heeled developers is wrong. When does it stop? A substantial amount of money earmarked for parkland was handed to the proponents of the public market. The town has already given carte blanche to the George Hotel regarding Winegarden Park and the forest massacre at the Touchstone fiasco is definitely NOT getting back to what’s real. The wholesale destruction of 40-plus acres notwithstanding, your proposed tree cutting bylaws are a failure. I fail to see the correlation of preserving green space by selling off or virtually giving away publicly owned assets.
Trent Farrell, Gibsons
