Shaffer thanks Worrell & Ayers for voting against more housing in Carmel’s Gramercy neighborhood

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Dear Editor:

My thanks go out to Camel City Councilors Jeff Worrell and Teresa Ayers, who voted against adding 1,000 housing units and other paraphernalia to the Gramercy community between 126th Street and Carmel Drive.

Worrell and Ayers heeded the concerns of neighbors and the election-year complaints about congestion and the growth in apartment houses instead of single-family homes.

The addition of 1,000 to 1,500 more vehicles in that confined area insures massive traffic jams on two already over-worked arteries.

One has only to watch the massive roundabout lockup in rush-hour traffic to predict what day-long lockups we will experience in years to come.

Adding $53 million to the $1.4 billion civic debt to inconvenience taxpayers further ain’t no way to run a city.

Bill Shaffer
Carmel