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There is some evidence that the consuming desire for development is misguided not only environmentally but even financially. Local officials commonly think that vacation-home developments will boost tax collections, but they are sometimes wrong. Many buyers of vacation homes turn them into year-round residences and require greatly expanded public services. The Vermont Public Interest Research Group once found that the state's ski industry was profitable mostly for outsiders who have come to exploit it. The Rev. Brendan Whitaker has denounced the industry from the pulpit of St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Brandon, Vt. Says the pastor...
This summer Cambridge did exist and it kept on going. Even some atmosphere of the year-round Harvard continued. Directory assistance was still there (along with that wonderful lady with the acerbic British accent). Many professors stayed around till late August's heat and humidity drove them to the mountains and to the Cape. When we walked by the Union this summer, strange and stultifying smells still emanated from the back kitchen...
...Doubleday; $8.95), and it argues vehemently that the convulsive growth of recent years "will homogenize" the Vineyard, "grind its character to mediocrity, and make the place indistinguishable from the brutally overdeveloped mainland coast." The book shows that when developers turned toward the island at the beginning of this decade, the Vineyard was completely unprepared to hold them back: zoning laws were inadequate, the Vineyard's economy had become dependent on tourism or summer residents, and local governments had not thought to plan ahead. Many year-round Vineyard inhabitants, on the other hand, have been prospering through the boom...
...region's 123,000 year-round residents were impressed. With a per capita income that ranges from $500 to $1,500 less than the state average, and an unemployment rate that can reach 25% in the winter, they felt that what the region needed most was the broadened economic base (new jobs, new tax revenues and higher land prices) that rapid development promises. At public hearings in January, the residents expressed their opposition. "You are going to preserve the Adirondacks' extreme poverty," charged David Fox, a property holder in Warren County. Added James Dudley, a landowner in Fort...
HOUSING. Together with commerce, housing consumes 35% of energy production. A major saving can be made with proper insulation, because in the average home about 25% of the heat escapes through the roof. Turning down the thermostat can also make a big difference. A difference of only two degrees year-round in American homes, says University of Tennessee Physicist John R. Gibbons, could be the equivalent of saving 100 million tons of coal per year. Perpetually burning pilot lights on gas stoves are another wasteful luxury that can be eliminated. Moreover, home electric bills could be cut if consumers would...