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When my ancestors on my dad's side first built their summer homes here over a century ago, Apponaug Cove was a picturesque destination for many. Shellfishing was a way of life for the working man. Even growing up here as I did, we were able to actually swim in the cove when I was a young child. I sailed my 12 foot Cape Dory there and even walked out to the channel one winter when the temps dipped low enough and for long enough to make this possible. Now you're telling me this developer (earth rapist, in my book), is digging into his (and his associates') deep pockets to pave over a peaceful, wildlife-rich stretch of shoreline in the name of revitalizing Apponaug? What a joke. What needs revitalizing is the village center, not the cove. As Lynn Potter-Vossleman alludes to above, the traffic problem will most likely become unmanageable, as it pretty much is already. And add a sudden downpour-the kind we are seeing more and more frequently these days and bingo! Back up-all the way to Toll Gate Road,at least! Oh, and don't forget what Dory Road and Arnolds Neck residents will have for a view out their windows! But this is just details to the guy who REALLY wants that hotel built no matter what the obstacles. We've seen it before.

When will the moneyed business man begin to realize that open space is far more valuable in dollars and to the life that lives in and around it-human, animal and plant, than a vast block of concrete that wreaks havoc on everything from infrastructure it stresses, down to the very smallest of creatures that makes its home there? In the end no one wins.

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