Free land isn’t free

To the editor:

In response to Andrew Wellner’s article about “Residents fret about road” from Saturday Jan 10. This road issue into the Ranch Subdivision is a cover for a different borough bad idea. Does this road extension at taxpayers’ expense seem familiar with some free land the borough accepted for a new school? What do they have in common? The free land for a new school in South Palmer, aka South Wasilla, is going to cost the borough residents millions of taxpayer money to build this new road The cost of free land is once again before the assembly with the new name of access road to the Ranch Subdivision and new school. What will they do this time? Cindy Bettine said it correctly last May when speaking about accepting the free land for a school. “We botched two land donations in two and half years.”

This idea of a new road is only a testament to the botching of borough planning or maybe better described as borough politicking.

Surveyors and engineers will come up with a good plan to build a top-notch road that takes from some, for the common good of the whole, to fix the borough assembly’s politicking. I, for one, wish those professionals the best as they will need it.

May I invite my fellow citizens that when the next borough road bond is on the ballot, vote “No.” Further, when the current sitting assembly is up for re-election, let’s vote them out of office so they cannot cripple the residents and taxpayers of this borough with bad planning aka politicking anymore.

Bryan Scoresby

Palmer