Parking lot would generate more traffic, harm landscape
As a Sayreville resident, I am all too familiar with the ever-increasing traffic in town.

The Borough Council is doing the right thing by trying to preserve 3 acres of land along Washington Road across from the 9/11 Memorial. Development of that property would damage the natural landscape and create more traffic, while preservation would save trees and add the area to existing parks.

Saving this property wouldn't

cost taxpayers a cent. Sayreville has an existing openspace fund of nearly $3 million. It has yet to be used for any preservation since its inception.

Nor surprisingly, Mayor Kennedy O'Brien is against protecting this land from development. If the mayor had his way, this property could easily become another convenience store or some other business that would attract even more cars to the already clogged roadway.

So what's the mayor's plan? Instead of preserving trees and adding to parks, the mayor wants to spend more than $300,000 to build a lavish parking lot in the Melrose section of the borough that will be used by a handful of people. It is hard to believe that our mayor could have such misguided priorities.

Sayreville needs more open space, not parking places.

Rita Holliday

Sayreville