Wrong Stockertown, a bad decision!

Below is a "Letter to the Editor" that appeared in today's Express-Times.
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Forks Twp. vote a Weis decision

Hooray for the Forks Township supervisors who voted for the Weis grocery store. Every person I've spoken to is looking forward to another choice for grocery shopping.

I hope the Residents Who Care, if they really do care, would care more that the township is doing something about the old Laneco Plaza.

I've been following this folly for some time now. Most amusing is how some of the Forks planners have been anal about the look of this proposed store. They can look diagonally across the intersection from this proposed store to see that great example of architectural beauty, a storage facility, which is coincidentally less than one mile from another storage facility. I think some people need to have their priorities in order.

Bill MacDougall-Stockertown

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Of course Mr. MacDougall and his fellow residents are happy that a new grocery store *MAY* be on the way, after all, it won't be in Stockertown, it will be in FORKS TOWNSHIP! We will be the ones who will have to endure 100x, or 10,000% more traffic, face potential serious ramifications from storm water run-off, see our emergency services taxed even further, and watch the quality of our life in Forks Township degrade even more.

As for the former Laneco Plaza Mr. MacDougall, before you challenge us to do something, why don't you ask the Forks Township Board of Supervisors why they approved Giant's new project some years ago without questioning them about the severe deed restrictions that they placed on their former store in Laneco Plaza. By the way Mr. MacDougall, most of the current board was in office at the time this occurred.

With respect to "choice" Mr. MacDougall, did you happen to notice the other five or six full service grocery stores within 5 miles of this proposed Weis Market?

Lastly Mr. MacDougall, as stated from the start, Residents Who Care is not necessarily opposed to another grocery store in Forks Township. What we are against is changing zoning rules abruptly to accommodate one specific developer. They call that "spot zoning".