Save Marple Greenspace

We just conducted a routine review of the "Sproul Road Developers" file at the Marple Township building to see if there was anything new relating to Peter Miller’s proposed residential development of the Don Guanella forest. It contained an upsetting letter which sheds ...                                                

Carlino would have you believe that restriping Sproul and adding turn lanes to Sproul at the Dairy Queen and to Lawrence at Popeye's Chicken is all it will take to make our version of Long Island traffic vanish. Don't you hear this from every developer's traffic engineer, that they won't be making traffic worse?

It was with overwhelming public support that Telluride’s town council condemned land. Their position was that the public good was better served by leaving the land along the San Miguel River as open space and protecting its recreational, ecological, and historical value. The state Supreme Court upheld the confiscation.

Putting lipstick on a piggish development won't hide the fact that a 47 acre monstrous commercial developmnent would crush Sproul Road with 30k new vehicle trips. This road is already overburdened with 33,000 average daily vehicle trips.  

We're offered the false choice of either accepting a huge commercial center bigger than Lawrence Park Shopping Center or losing the forest entirely. Carlino doesn't mention, of course, that they could build a much smaller center...

Carlino wants to convince area residents that something 8 acres bigger than the Springfield Mall complex  would be just wonderful. Like a magician, they're attempting to divert your eye from the new 30,000 daily vehicle trips that would enter and exit the center each day.