Dear Editor:
RE: Developer hopes to amend zoning to allow for grocery store in Elora, July 6.
I read with some amusement Debra Kropf’s comments in regards to the opposition to another grocery store opening in Elora. That she wanted it to remain beautiful. Well, that genie escaped the bottle years ago.
Gone are the days where winning teams would ride through town on the fire truck, or you could fart around down in the gorge alone for hours, unbothered.
Now, they are plowing up pristine farmers fields to build townhouses, we have traffic clogging, litter-inducing crappy old McDonald’s coming, and we can’t even see our own Tooth of Time unless I sneak past security, or rent a $1,000 room for the night.
You will notice I don’t even live in Elora anymore; I can’t afford to. Housing prices are through the roof, and if something semi-affordable does come up, it is generally scooped up, demolished and some monstrosity with no yard replaces it.
I am one of the residents that watched in horror what they did to our beautiful small town, while others rubbed their hands with glee, dollar signs glistening in their eyes.
Yes, Elora is changing, into what, I don’t know, nor do I have control over – but it certainly isn’t my small, beautiful town anymore.
Brett MacKenzie,
Alma