Letter: Lake Wylie is growing too quickly

I have lived in Lake Wylie for eight years. There has been a building explosion with apartments and housing subdivisions.

I understand we need growth to prosper, but when the planning division lets contractors clear trees to put large apartment buildings so close to the road, this beautiful town no longer looks the same.

Where I am from, they (made) this mistake. They later passed an ordinance that new building had to leave 30 percent of all existing trees – not replacing a 100-year-old tree with a 3-foot tree. I hope somebody in this community wakes up before it’s too late.

Also, if the county and town of Clover don’t stop a rock quarry company on Ridge Road in Clover, can you imagine the truck traffic in Lake Wylie? Most quarries have 200-300 trucks running twice a day – empty then loaded. Those trucks would destroy the roads and slow rush-hour traffic more. We defeated the rock mining operation once, but they are trying to change the zoning. Rock mining often goes so deep, it interrupts the water supply, wells run dry and it can pollute groundwater.

I hope somebody might do stories about these issues, as they will affect the quality of our lives in this beautiful town.

Lake Wylie

This story was originally published July 9, 2015 at 3:31 PM with the headline "Letter: Lake Wylie is growing too quickly."