Send a Letter to the Editor Now!

Share your concerns about growth in Chelmsford with the local papers! See instructions below for sending an email with our sample letter.

Instructions:

• Copy the letter into your email
• Decide which paper you would like to send your letter to and get their contact information in the section below
• Personalize the letter to explain your concerns
• Remember that newspapers usually limit letters to the editor to less than 300 words!
• Hit Send!

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• Chelmsford Independent: chelmsford@cnc.com
• Lowell Sun: letters@lowellsun.com
• Boston Globe: Click here for online form
• Boston Herald: letterstotheeditor@bostonherald-com

Sample Letter

Select the text of the letter from the area below, then copy and paste it into your email. Add personal touches by inserting your own sentences or statements after you've pasted it into your email!

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I support slow growth strategies for Chelmsford and believe that communities should be allowed to determine their own rate of growth. With limited open space, upward pressure on town services and tax rates and burdens on our natural resources, we must stop unnecessary growth.

Research shows residential development aggravates town budget problems. The taxes collected from new developments don't even come close to offsetting the costs of the new services that such they require. An attempt to "build our way out" of our current budget woes will only exacerbate our problems.

Under current state statutes like 40B, which ignores planning and land-use policies, everyone is forced to grow, irrespective of local wishes. For those who wish to grow, we will collectively be better off without growing everywhere. As with most things, it's about balance. This diversity makes our state great and blanket policies like 40B just degrade our quality of life.

We need the ability to adopt indefinite moratoria on new development or to specify a maximum rate of acceptable growth to protect public health, welfare, and quality of life in our community. Chelmsford should lead the way by limiting building permits, new hook-ups to sewer and water, and begin scrutinizing the opaque financials of harmful 40B projects.

Unless we make these changes, we will never recover from an era of deficits cuts in town services.