Linda Waldorf

Grove City

There are enough good reasons to oppose Quaker Meadows without resorting to fear-mongering. Traffic flow will be a problem and Hermitage is not immune to the nationwide downturn in housing sales and pricing, so there are plenty of properties that have been on the market for months or years.

That said, the low road taken by critics of the project is disgraceful. Most low-income people get up every day and go to work, maybe several jobs, and have never even had a parking ticket.

All the hardworking people who work the sales counters in the mall, and the drive-through windows at fast food places, take care of the elderly in nursing homes do not deserve the contempt and abuse heaped upon them at the Hermitage commissioners’ meeting.

Why not blame the developers? They will build anything for which they can obtain financing. If funds were available for a facility for retired circus elephants, then the project would be called “DumboLand.”

All who oppose the project solely because low-income people would live there should consider how little it takes to become a low income person. Everyone is susceptible to changes in fortune due to death, divorce, disability, desertion, downsizing or disaster.