RE: Development on the Coast
Yes, elitism:
By then, perhaps, Hatteras Village will have been transformed from a community of hardy and independent-minded souls into a high-density cluster of condominiums and palatial "rental machines" for vacationers, with few or no permanent residents, serviced by a small army of seasonal workers who will commute each night to apartments in some affordable gulag far away, invisible as the subterranean workers of Disney World.
"We were just living our lives, never realizing that something like this could happen to us," said Ricki Shepherd, who has run the Hatteras Harbor Seafood and Deli for the past two decades, and is current president of the Hatteras Civic Association ("Not a job coveted by anyone," Shepherd notes). "The development here has just been insane. As a community, the Slash Condos project has shown us the line that we have to draw if we are going to survive. This is the final line."
"I've got one woman down there, Jane Oden [of the Hattteras Civic Association], whose family owns three docks," said Dixon. "And she's fighting us over a little marina with a bunch of outboard boats. What can you say to that? We've got a federal agency saying that creek is manatee habitat. A manatee couldn't get up that creek if it was walking upright. Do you see how ridiculous this is?"
These people don't want the development because they are afraid of changes that will upset their little corner of heaven-on-earth. They are using the environmental concerns to win the sympathies of bleeding-heart environmentalists everywhere. The fact is that they lived in a virtual gated community and now Dixon and Hoyle are poised to bring in the rabble and they don't like it a bit.
And yes, these folks are about as native as you can get to the Outer Banks without being Croatan.
No one seems to be mentioning that the Croatans probably thought pretty much the same things. Nothing in this life is more constant than change.
And I realize that by declaring a large part of the coast National Seashore, my options for accommodations will be limited. But we've got to make a hard choice: do we continue to build or do we preserve the land so that future generations will have someplace to go?
I'm hoping that you will re-read what you wrote and realize that you committed an oxymoron.
And you're still dodging the question. You said:
...just suggesting that we control any future development.
Who is we? And what kind of controls are you suggesting?
By then, perhaps, Hatteras Village will have been transformed from a community of hardy and independent-minded souls into a high-density cluster of condominiums and palatial "rental machines" for vacationers, with few or no permanent residents, serviced by a small army of seasonal workers who will commute each night to apartments in some affordable gulag far away, invisible as the subterranean workers of Disney World.
"We were just living our lives, never realizing that something like this could happen to us," said Ricki Shepherd, who has run the Hatteras Harbor Seafood and Deli for the past two decades, and is current president of the Hatteras Civic Association ("Not a job coveted by anyone," Shepherd notes). "The development here has just been insane. As a community, the Slash Condos project has shown us the line that we have to draw if we are going to survive. This is the final line."
"I've got one woman down there, Jane Oden [of the Hattteras Civic Association], whose family owns three docks," said Dixon. "And she's fighting us over a little marina with a bunch of outboard boats. What can you say to that? We've got a federal agency saying that creek is manatee habitat. A manatee couldn't get up that creek if it was walking upright. Do you see how ridiculous this is?"
These people don't want the development because they are afraid of changes that will upset their little corner of heaven-on-earth. They are using the environmental concerns to win the sympathies of bleeding-heart environmentalists everywhere. The fact is that they lived in a virtual gated community and now Dixon and Hoyle are poised to bring in the rabble and they don't like it a bit.
And yes, these folks are about as native as you can get to the Outer Banks without being Croatan.
No one seems to be mentioning that the Croatans probably thought pretty much the same things. Nothing in this life is more constant than change.
And I realize that by declaring a large part of the coast National Seashore, my options for accommodations will be limited. But we've got to make a hard choice: do we continue to build or do we preserve the land so that future generations will have someplace to go?
I'm hoping that you will re-read what you wrote and realize that you committed an oxymoron.
And you're still dodging the question. You said:
...just suggesting that we control any future development.
Who is we? And what kind of controls are you suggesting?
posted by Anonymous | 2:49 PM
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