All about money

There are so many things wrong with this development on Wisconsin Ave., I don't even know where to start. I am only 16 years old, and it seems to be common sense to me that if there is even the potential for negative impact in this sensitive area, it should be avoided at all costs. As everyone has been saying, the wetlands are going to be dramatically affected which mean the animals will be as well.

Ask yourselves, what are these developers' true intentions? Money, that's all the world is about today. It's an unrealistic development to have right in that part of town — a 95,000-square-foot lodge, reduced to 75,150 square feet, and 104 condominium units on this low-lying area of Wisconsin makes almost no sense. It would truly be a disaster.

An extra 1,225 cars on Wisconsin a day. I wonder what the "traffic calming effect" of a raised median is going to achieve — it sounds like a bottleneck to me. That kind of thing is meant for a small residential street, not an already busy roadway where traffic flows frequently, especially the main route from Big Mountain.

What about all the people that live here day in day out, work here, have fun here and raise their children here? We have to live with the negative repercussions of overdevelopment of our small town.

What about all the wildlife that live near Wisconsin? With the extra cars and people they will either be driven off or simply hit and killed on the road. The water quality issues will directly affect us and the animals as well.

What are the developers going to use to de-ice the acres of boardwalk in the winter that they are proposing to overlay the wetlands? Water run-off and other sources of pollution are eventually flowing directly into the lake that we swim, boat in and get our drinking water from.

So, yes this could destroy our water quality, yes it could disrupt habitat and clutter our small town, taking away how special it is.

I'm not against development, but there must be better places in this valley to build high density housing than in our wetlands and lake drainage.

I urge the city council to do the right thing and preserve the natural wildness of this area, so that my friends and I can grow up in the kind of town that we love today.

Alissa LaChance

Whitefish