[DVBC] Upper Providence Trail

[Woody Kotch]

I attended the Upper Providence Township Council meeting tonight. It was the 
biggest crowd ever at a township meeting. I'd say three hundred residents 
came out to rant at the council on the poor job they did on communicating 
with the community on this project and urged them to vote down the entire 
proposal, which they did.

The speakers from the audience called the report by the consultants a waste 
of $80,000.00 that was poorly done. The arguments of higher taxes, 
undisclosed expenses, security issues, and eminant domain concerns, that the 
township would take land from property owners highlighted the opponents 
points. Only three people spoke out in favor of the proposal. 30 or so 
against.

Alot of work went into this plan and it is a shame that it seems to have 
been killed by the inclusion of trails that would have been built on or 
behind private property many years in the future. In this case it might have 
been better to start small with just some designated streets and extended 
sidewalks. That might have been downed too. The venum in the room was that 
thick.

Woody