The Friends of Crystal Spring do not endorse Mayor Mike Pantelides’ plan to negotiate with Affirmative Hillspoint, LLC and the Crystal Spring developers to relocate the continuing care facility to the “north” end of the Crystal Spring property. Based on information that has been publicly released so far, this plan, though touted as having “reduced the scope” of the project, appears to be little different from the 2013 design and in some ways increases the environmental impacts. The new design creates a false trade-off between wetlands and forest by concentrating more development inside the contiguous forest on the northern end in order to avoid certain wetlands and the intermittent stream. Read our full press release here.
