Boy Scout stresses need to preserve open space in E.B.

I support preserving open space in East Brunswick. Schools are becoming more overcrowded as more land is developed. I would rather look at cows than at someone’s backyard fence.

I am worried that when I grow up all I will see are houses, condominiums, warehouses and stores. I want to see the grass, trees, forests and farms that I see now. I am glad the township saved the Giamarese Farm where I have grown up going on hayrides and picking fruit, vegetables, pumpkins and holiday greenery.

I am afraid that open space preservation may not work because people are greedy and want to make money by selling the land.

The seller and the real estate agents stand to gain when they sell land to a developer who can then build big houses and sell them to people who want to live in East Brunswick.

Although we have to pay more taxes to buy land, and we lose tax dollars from the buildings that might have been built, I still think the town benefits from using our money to save the land that can never be put back to its natural state.

Gregory Pinkin Salwitz

Age 13

Boy Scout Troop No. 83

East Brunswick