I attended the public meetings about traffic improvements and roundabouts in Pine Grove and submitted the following comment: The roundabouts give a beginning and end definition to Pine Grove, which is clearly intended by many of the proponents. The idea of clear boundaries to a settlement is European, born in Feudalism and carried forward into Socialism. The American pattern where a community has greater population density and/or land use intensity at its center and then fades into the countryside with generally larger and larger lots is born of freedom and private property. I like and want to preserve the American pattern and the values behind it. Americans who favor European land use amaze me, since the vast majority of Americans are descended from Europeans who voted with their feet to reject the European style.
Copyright 2012, Mark L. Bennett
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