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(Continued from Page 1) low cost rental housing,” Hudson claimed. Annette Young, landowner with a farm about two miles away from Parlagreco’s, said the photographs displayed gave a deceiving impression of the property because background and foreground weren’t incorporated into the pictures to show details of the topography, particularly the proximity to a stream. When she and her husband bought their property 16 years ago. Young said, the realtor had been very concerned about possible pollution of the stream with wastes from the then-in-use chicken shed. She maintained that the danger of pollution to Allen Run would be even worse with t sewage effluent from an apartment building. The run, she said, flows into the Thornton River, already dangerously polluted to the point where plans for an upstream sewage treatment plant and central sewage system are under way.
Young also noted that the development would put increased pressure on community services—schools, police, fire and rescue and solid waste disposal. Trash would be a particular burden on the capacity of the nearby Castleton dumpsters, she said, adding that Parlagreco already burns tires on his farm, sending up clouds of thick, black smoke.
Homer Henry, former owner of Castleton Farms, maintained that the 19 acre chicken house lot is currently taking all the sewage wastes that it’s capable of absorbing. Of the 19 acres, he said, eight are in steep woodland, three in flood plain and one and a half in a pond. A tenant house and a small efficiency apartment over the chicken house are already on septic fields on the lot. “That’s all the land is capable of handling,” claimed Henry. He also insisted that the wells which serve tenant house and chicken shed apartment are not adequate for eight additional residential units.
According to the former Castleton Farms owner, some exterior change will be necessary in order to convert the chicken house into apartments. “Inside at the eaves, it’s only six feet high,” he exported.
“Maybe they’re going to have small people live there,” Gardiner joked.
Henry repeated his opposition
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