Is more less?

To the editor: While people in Woodbury are choking on traffic, pollution, confiscatory taxes and being forced to subsidize big business, the town board introduces two high-density projects as beneficial: 732 units rather than 283 homes. This will yield tremendous riches for the developers and dramatically expand the size and cost of government - and taxes. And all the while incumbents are claiming more will be less. Changing our zoning laws establishes a legal precedent that can be challenged and exploited by others who will want more and even higher density concessions. To many of us, the unusual urgency exercised to rush the process through to bring about such major projects is not leadership, but capitulation to what has been called “the lesser of two evils.” In fact, the ultimate evil is that the process has been flawed by fear, intimidation and thinly veiled threats that the property will be flipped. On Nov. 8, we will vote for John Burke. An experienced, highly qualified leader, John has the superior abilities, skills and the will to deliver all that he and his team have promised to restore: open government, fiscal accountability, and to take town planning away from developers. Aimee and Joseph Fitzgerald Central Valley