If there is one place in Worcester County business leaders and elected officials want to see growth, it’s at Riddle Farm along the Route 50 corridor at the Berlin WalMart.
If there’s one reason that growth has been seen nearly everywhere but Riddle Farm, county officials are pointing at high equivalent dwelling unit costs.
EDUs are a measure of wastewater treatment plant processing capacity. Riddle Farm has its own treatment facility, packed with 267 EDUs, according to the county, that are more or less just sitting there.
In order to avoid charging taxpayers for the infrastructure costs, the county opted to enter into a public/private partnership where a private company would collect the fees associated with providing the services and the county would receive a portion of the proceeds.
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Growth hasn't occurred because it is an unattractive neighborhood. Track housing gone amok.
ReplyDeleteOne would think while viewing the Riddle Farm from a vantage point on Rt 50 that it was a prison or an insane asylum. Those ungodly looking humps that for 8-9 months out of the year are home to dead grass are reminiscent of protection for soldiers in a war zone. Whatever that tower is on Rt 50 is an eyesore and that trailer placed next to it certainly does't make it appealing.
Anyone associated with this catastrophe including the county officials should go into hiding for the betterment of the county.
Here you had a beautiful farm of some historical significance and some without any forethought completely bastardized it. Entrance should have been a long white fence tree lined lane with homes on estate sized lots, designed with the equestrian history of the land in mind. Lots of magnolia's and white fences and formal hedgerows strategically places.
I thought if the developer gave Berlin property for a new fire house there this was a done deal.
ReplyDeleteMunicap is the same scam artist that Salisbury used to justify those TIF deals back in the day.
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