Letter to the editor
August 17, 2024
Think clearly about Winston Farm plans
The Saugerties Town Board needs to think more clearly about the demands on the services if the development at Winston Farm goes through per the developers’ plans (Police, schools, emergency services and ambulances, tow trucks and mechanical needs, etc. for the newly expanded area and
populations). It’s helpful to not be stuck in traffic continuously while one needs to get from point A to point B like what happened out in Barclay Heights. Just because there’s land, it doesn’t mean that it should be developed to make more money for the remaining pieces of open land to be just developed and no longer user user-friendly. If we wanted to live in a city, we would have moved to the city. It was nice to see that piece of land down by the creek open to let busy people have some small window of opportunity to see nature in its semi-finest. That’s developed and ready for erosion too.
Who has to deal with that issue? The developers will have moved on to greener pastures without taking traffic concerns, job availability and services into consideration. Rubber-stamping projects for the wealthier developers need more awareness on the typical scale like police, EMTs, DPW, etc.
I don’t care how many generations of their families have lived here. It’s more of a common sense concept vs. who is in the Saugerties cemeteries.
I am glad that there are areas that are being left for nature but just concerned about bumper-to-bumper traffic, fewer consumers in Saugerties village, and the overall demands on the town services by pretending that a development of that size and complexity won’t add more predicaments to solve logically.
Elinor Nosker,
Saugerties
Originally Published: August 17, 2024 at 11:07 a.m.
