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I enjoyed the June 7 article titled “Sugar Notch dress factory finally razed.” But in its heyday, the factory provided jobs for area residents, including my friend’s mother, Mrs. Kinney.
Now the borough council’s members should encourage the development of new housing and new jobs.
I discussed a good option for the 50-plus acres that Earth Conservancy had prepared for single-family housing in Sugar Notch, next to the Hanover soccer fields. But after the housing bust effectively killed any chance of building there, I think the council should re-zone the land for multi-family housing so that a federal tax credit, low-income housing project can be built on the site.
Recently, a beautiful low-income housing development, called Laurel Woods, was built in Scranton. It looks like a single-family development because the units are single-family homes, but they are built in twos, just like “double-blocks.” They look like separate single homes, but they are connected by the garages.
The Sugar Notch Council raised our property taxes by more than 40 percent last year. If the town does not consider multi-family zoning for the Earth Conservancy lands, it is likely that taxes will be going up again. Let’s build our town up, when we are not busy tearing it down.
Mario Fiorucci
Councilman
Sugar Notch