To the Editor:

I fully agree with Dudley Losselyong's letter (“Decision Driven by Tax Base, Great Falls Connection, July 6-12, 2016). Nineteen houses in Brooks Farm is marginally better, I guess, than 23, but the developers, Basheer/Edgemoore Brooks surely knew the zoning of the property when they bought it. Now they have the nerve to ask the people of Great Falls to make them a present of the many millions of dollars in increased property value (and sale prices of the homes to be built) that a rezoning will entail.

Why do developers always assume that they can count on rezoning whenever it will benefit them?

I object, and I hope the Connection and the citizens of the Village will as well.

I will remember how the planning commission members and how the County Supervisors vote on Brooks Farm and the Challedon rezoning actions, and I will seek to punish those who try to Restonize and McLeanify Great Falls.

Peter D. Zimmerman

Great Falls