Three letters about the soccer complex in today's paper

From the Times-News, three letters to the editor about the soccer complex.
First from Norah Schumacher of Flat Rock:

...The Henderson County golf community supports its privately established and operated courses much like the overwhelming majority of soccer associations across this country establish and support their regional complex. All this is done without taxpayer funding.

If there is extra money around, please let it go to the children, but please endorse programs that will lead a majority of them to better lives in their future.

Then from Theodore Etherington of Flat Rock:

...If I get in the car and drive in just about any direction, I can find plenty of flat land with none of it in the flood plain. It would require very little in the way of preparation and not anything close to $600,000 to convert it to soccer fields. It would be very easy to contact the owner and make an offer way below 1½ million dollars that any current landowner would happily accept. There would be no complaints from the neighbors because there would be none close enough to speak of. The park district, the soccer association, and the donors would have exactly what they tell us they need.

This issue has nothing to do with the kids and their desire for a decent place to play soccer. That is a reasonable request. The motivation for all of it extends beyond soccer and the other up-front reasons that have been put forth for this purchase. Don’t you wonder what that might be?

And finally from Ed Joran of Hendersonville:

...What Mr. Worrell, the HCSA and four of the five county commissioners choose to ignore is that the opposition from homeowners surrounding the proposed soccer complex is not that we are taking a “NIMBY” (not in my backyard) position. We are taking a “NIABY” (not in anybody’s backyard) position.

A soccer complex with attendant noise and lighting pollution, and negative property value and traffic impacts, is inappropriate in residential settings — particularly at the HLGC site.

Read them all.