Everybody Wants To Move To The Shore
In addition to the development woes in Wicomico and Worcester, the folks in Dorchester County have a fight on their hands as well. A planned 3,200 unit development south of Cambridge seems to be right on track.
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Dolfarn, the Times will likely justify its position on the Cambridge development vs. the Mall development as an argument for “Smart Growth,” since the Cambridge development is proposed for a rural, environmentally sensitive area and the Mall is on a site “oh so perfect for compact urban development.”
Folks need to read deeper into Smart Growth. Nothing in there dictates that Salisbury become inner Baltimore.
Citizens are seeing through the hype and sell very well and are taking action. If you’d like to help, send a donation of any size to help defray the legal costs of a zoning appeal on the mall to:
Douglas Kent - Mall (make check payable to same)
305 Glendale Dr.
Salisbury, MD 21804
write “Mall Appeal” in the memo line.
Meticulous records will be kept.
For more information or to arrange an anonymous donation, call Linda Kent at 410-742-7011.
As one citizen commented about the Times, she’d never seen a newspaper cozy up to an administration like this one does. Usually, they pick apart everything they do. It is notable that this newspaper seems to almost never criticize the Mayor or City Council, and often goes further to sound like their publicist.
More people are taking to the blogs, the emails, PAC14 and other alternatives because of their disgust with the Times.
Isn’t it odd that today’s Disgrace has the citizens opposition to the Blackwater development posted in their “Cheers” column on the editorial page? I didn’t read any “Cheers” regarding a coalition of citizens opposing the Mall development, among others, here in Salisbury. One might get the idea they are promoting the squashing of proposed developments in other counties in an effort for developers to see how easy it is to get things done around Salisbury. Make it a shoe in and “they will come”. Plenty of publicity printed regarding development in Somerset, Worcester, and Dorchester. A Disgrace reader might get the idea there are no development issues, let alone, opposition in Wicomico. I think the Salisbury autocracy holds a really, really, tight rein on the Disgrace. I wonder where the Disgrace editor’s office really is located? Is it Carroll St. or could it possibly be North Division St?