Forty years ago we decided to move into Bath Township. This is where we wanted to live and send our kids to school. Fortunately we were able to settle in Lost Creek and we were excited to do so. We have seen many kids grow up here along with my own and now my grand kids. It’s been a great time.
Now, for some reason, a few people think it is necessary to make it possible for business to locate on the Lost Creek side of state Route 309. Why would the residents of our great township want this to happen?
We want to stay a safe family friendly neighborhood just like everyone else. We want to keep our identity.
I do not believe David O. Smith’s silly analogy ” If you do not change you will become extinct” has any meaning here. I don’ t think he gets it. We want to preserve our existence.
I have a much more appropriate analogy that comes from the song “Big Yellow Taxi” sung by Joni Mitchell that goes in part, “That you don’t know what you got till it’s gone. They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.”
Call me a dinosaur if you will, but Lost Creek is our little piece of paradise. Please do not let them destroy it. With a passionate plea to Bath Township voters we ask you to please vote “no’ on the Lost Creek overlay. We feel it compromises the safety of our children, families and the entire Bath community.
Now is not the time to make Lost Creek look like the south side of state Route 309.
Think family.
Steve Hilgert, Lost Creek, Bath Township
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