Lower Fairfield County

Is Coming To Newtown

To the Editor:

At dusk today, driving down Toddy Hill Road, past the cow pasture where a number cows were quietly grazing — it reminded me of what Lower Fairfield County has lost just in the past couple decades. Lower Fairfield County is not even remotely the same place it was a few years ago.

And that cow pasture is the land parcel in the process of becoming yet another housing development.

We have lived in Newtown for almost nine years, and, like many newcomers, moved up here to get away from the rat-race of Lower Fairfield County. Unfortunately, Lower Fairfield County is following all of us up here...we talk about the deer eating our flowers, the smaller animals leaving the woods in search of underbrush that the deer have eaten, fears of various animals coming out of the woods and eating our dogs and cats — and we are the reason this is happening. We are taking away their food. We are taking their land.

Why on earth do we continue to develop our open land? Is this just for monetary gain? And at what cost?

We are the reason these animals are losing their homes and becoming a threat to our flowers and pets. We have made our land so crowded, that we are becoming the very thing we have attempted to escape.

Let’s leave Lower Fairfield County where it is and keep Newtown land open and easy. Isn’t that the reason we came here in the first place...so we can breathe?

Liz Sortino

13 Turkey Roost Road, Sandy Hook                             April 22, 2010