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Dear Fellow Republicans:
May 17 is the most critical date in the last 12 years for your vote on the future of Warrington. It is the last chance for you to recover control of your township from developers.
Since 1995, specifically because of high intensity zoning changes and generously donated TDRs (development rights) to developers, our township has swelled from 14,000 to 22,500+ residents. This is over twice the 1992 10 year comprehensive plan projection. The overgrowth was done with no benefits to residents. We are paying for it with inadequate roads and unresolved traffic, storm water overload, increased water and sewer costs, bulging schools with temporary buildings, and significantly increased school property taxes (60% since 1996). The plight continues with over 500 approved homes still under construction and yet unoccupied, over 3 times that allowed if zoning hadn’t been changed for developers’ benefit and windfall. It is established that taxes from each new home do not cover the cost of services. Existing residents thus are paying the difference.
In the last two elections, you, the voters, chose Carol Butterworth and me based upon our platform to better manage development and increase communications. With the WarringtonWatchdogs.org community web site and, due to the work of our cable board, with a new Warrington TV Channel 23, we’ve been able to start to improve communications. Managing development, the higher priority, is not as easy a challenge, since we’re outvoted 3-2 at every turn related to this.
The township is estimated at 80% build-out. That leaves 20% of our land to be further rezoned to higher densities if we allow this binge to continue. The next choice after May 17 is four years away, at which time the township could be entirely decimated if we cannot get help from Lyons and Butterworth now.
We must have your support at the polls for Lyons and Butterworth in order to turn the tide in favor of the residents, not the developers. The opponents for the two supervisor seats at stake are appointed vestiges of the 10 year strangle hold the pro-developer supervisors have had on the residents since 1995. Mr. Paul, as employee to Lankford Landscaping, derives his living from developers. Mr. Fein is a commercial realtor who aggressively championed the Valley Square development as a planning board member. Mr. Fein’s firm’s preferred clients included both the Buyer and Seller of that property. Township residents needed to sue the township over the supervisors’ approval and won a reduced intensity compromise with the developer. Both Paul and Fein have refused to abstain from developments’ discussions and before votes where they have conflicts of interest.
It is not a personality contest. It is a contest between residents’ candidates (Lyons and Butterworth) and candidates with a proven track record in developers’ bias (more info on WarringtonWatchdogs.org).
Please – change the tide of overdevelopment by supporting Lyons and Butterworth. It’s our last chance!!
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