Group renews opposition to Green Meadow sale
There have been a few letters written lately about how any owner
should be allowed to sell his property to whomever he pleases in this
paper and also in others.
We, at Hudson Grassroots Central, the
entire membership of over 300 strong, agree 110 percent that any homeowner
should be able to sell his 15,000 square feet, his 37,000 square feet,
his acre, his 10 acres or whatever to anyone with no interference from
anyone.
However, it is the larger parcels -- the ones with many
acres of land, the ones that if sold to large facilities may cause untold
problems to the town and its populace -- where we have to take a second
and very possibly a very close look at the above statement.
Just suppose the 450-acre parcel at Green Meadow Golf Course, after
a sale by the Friel family, was to be used as the site for a maximum
security prison with the most hardened of murderers locked up there. A
casino. A medical waste incinerator. A methadone clinic and drug
rehabilitation center. A depository for nuclear waste, or even a legal
brothel. In Hudson, N.H.?
Would the writers who advocate selling
to whomever still feel that way? We think not. We all have to look at the
big picture in our minds and consider what the sale of large parcels of
land -- and to whom and for what purpose -- will cost us as a town and as
a people.
We are all for selling your land to whomever as long as
the entire population of the town does not have to suffer in any way for
the remainder of their lives because of that sale, and what was built on
the site, and what it brought to the town.
Therein lies Hudson Grassroots Central's opposition to
Green Meadow Golf Course's sale to a yet unknown purchaser.
Ron Peters
For
www.HudsonGrassrootsCentral.com
Hudson
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Nashua Telegraph - January 25th