Re: Stroudwater Street zoning: “Not” is too big a word to omit from a May 8 quote in the American Journal. I attended a meeting of the City Council because I was asked to sign a petition which warned of J. B. Brown’s plans for a large development on Stroudwater Street. “I became alarmed and found out this is NOT what is happening.”

J. B. Brown proposes to build 18-single family homes on about 15 acres fronting on Stroudwater Street. Any commercial development they plan (hotel, stores, and offices) involving about 45 acres would front on the Westbrook Arterial with no access between the two. This is far superior to Snyder’s dream of 1.6 million square feet (more than the Maine Mall) for multi-level parking decks, stores, restaurants, playing field, outdoor festivals, etc., involving 6,000 cars on land he no longer owns. I hope voters fully understand the profound undesirable impact such a three-ring circus would have on the area.

Ann Bainbridge

Westbrook