Article makes me look defeated in a battle I had no intention of fighting
The following letter from Milford Borough Councilman David Wineberg responds below to the story "High-density zoning proposal nipped in the bud": http://bit.ly/2cPrsAq.
To the Editor:
It's too bad Frances Ruth Harris wasn't at the Milford council meeting Monday night, or she might have gotten some actual facts to report. Higher density was not my idea or my mission, it was Mayor Strub's. As I clearly stated at the meeting, I investigated it with him and for him, because the mayor is not a voting member of the council. Furthermore, the council president was the one who asked me to follow up on it at the previous meeting, and that's all I did. Finally, I did not propose increased density to council. Nor did I want to. All I said was it should be a task given to the Planning Commission to investigate and make recommendations, if any. That's what it's there for. None of that made it into her story. And of course, she didn't bother to ask me directly about any of it.
Instead, she reported on the really important stuff. The issue of sewage ("Everyone agreed") is of course a red herring, as the borough does not provide sewage services to homes. Everyone must have their own septic system. If there isn't sufficient space for one, you can't build. Period. The business of knowing who your neighbor is when you wake up is so beneath civil conversation, I am disappointed that's what got printed instead of the facts. The fact is two family units are permitted expressly in the ordinances. You just need a lot of at least 10,200 square feet. I don't mind Frances Ruth Harris spelling my name differently depending on the paragraph, or her standing right in front of me while I'm trying to address a question (in order to take a really terrible photograph), but I do strongly object when she frames something so blatantly incorrectly that it makes me look defeated in a battle I did not fight and had no intention of fighting.
David Wineberg
Milford Borough Council