Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 15:54:23 -0500
From: Marsha Derynck
Subject: Chatham Park
If you are not a Chatham County native, why did you move here? If you are a Chatham County native, why do you stay? Isn’t it the ambiance, the room-to-breathe, the lack of traffic, the small town atmosphere? Then why do you want a huge development that will change that all? I, for the life of me, can’t understand it.
If you want more people and more traffic, etc., why are you here? Why didn’t you move to Cary or North Raleigh or places that you are more compatible with? Why do you want to impose your desire to live in an urban
atmosphere on those of us who enjoy Chatham County the way it is. Yes, progress comes, but it comes slowly. This Chatham Park rapidly is going to change a lot of the reasons many of us are here.
I am sorry that Donna’s restaurant doesn’t have as many patrons as she expected. I love Bella Donna and eat there frequently. But I do think it is very short sighted of her to be pushing this new city in Chatham. Why should her desire for success in her business have to impinge on my and my neighbors’ lifestyles? I don’t want to say “I told you so” 10 or 15 years down the line when Chatham County blends into Cary and we have that cookie cutter suburban feel and all the character of Chatham county is lost. Her restaurant may or may not enjoy more patrons, but our small town and way of life will not be the same. I have lived in Cary and did not like it. It makes me sad that so many people, for self-stated self-serving reasons want to force their desired way of life on others. It is just sad.
Marsha