EDITOR:
Anyone who is concerned about the sprawl of megaretailers in south Gardnerville needs to wake up and pay attention. The county has already entered into development agreement 2009-1302 with Peri Enterprises, which exempts the project from the transfer development rights compliance process and grants the developers general commercial zoning on an additional 20 acres of agricultural land.
The transfer of development rights is the program that is supposed to preserve our rural character. And any one driving through town can see there is no lack of undeveloped commercial real estate.
What does the community get for this massive give-away? The community development office says that we get the realignment of Pinenut Road, which corrects a mistake that that same office made several years ago.
And so who really benefits from the road alignment? You? Me?
I say the primary beneficiary will be the next new megaretailer who is inevitably coming to town. And who is going to benefit from more big chain retail, well as the developers the Peris will probably come out on top.
In fact I think they are going to do so well that if the county would have bargained with more resolve, the opportunity to preserve agricultural land through the transfer of development rights program would not be lost.
Donna Buddington
Gardnerville
