THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Thursday, August 15, 1996 TAG: 9608150005
SECTION: FRONT PAGE: A18 EDITION: FINAL
TYPE: Letter
LENGTH: 21 lines
As a 20-year resident of Ocean View, I'm puzzled by your article lauding the return of Ernest Freeman as Norfolk's city planning director (MetroNews, Aug. 10). The article states that as senior planner from 1973 to 1984, Freeman supervised development in the Ocean View section of the city.
It was during this period that hundreds of single-family homes and beach cottages were destroyed and replaced with bland-looking, cheaply constructed, multiunit efficiency apartments. This policy of supply-side, maximum-density development was widely criticized in subsequent studies done by the federal Urban Land Institute. The landscape and character of Ocean View were irreparably damaged.
Welcome back?
T. C. BROWN
Norfolk, Aug. 11, 1996 by CNB