Dear Lincoln neighbors,
For more than a century here in Lincoln, Farrington Nature Linc has quietly and passionately served children from under-resourced communities with opportunities to experience time in nature full of wonder, play, and healing. Our land in Lincoln is a vital part of that experience, we hope for decades to come.
We are in full support of the Nature Link project before Lincoln’s Special Town Meeting on Wednesday, June 25 at 6:30pm, and we ask you to vote “yes” on both Articles 3 and 4.
The Nature Link project ensures the property around us is conserved for the nature experience our children need while also providing for our organization’s future. Additionally, this zoning offers us a unique opportunity for a secondary access road that we have sought for decades.
This project, conceived over many years with input from all land owners, takes into consideration the needs of all parties, including aligning with the Town of Lincoln’s planning goals. It permanently protects 77 acres and expands free public trail access. It provides thoughtfully scaled housing. And it helps keep Farrington rooted in Lincoln.
Voting “yes” on Articles 3 and 4 supports the hundreds of children we serve and secures this important natural space for generations.
With gratitude,
The Trustees of Farrington (see Farrington Nature Linc team page)
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Farrington and the kids it serves certainly has my support, but is this the only way to show it?
This letter states this plan has been in the works for many years.
That is troubling as the citizens who are asked to vote on said plan(s) have had only a few weeks to review.
We are being asked to vote for both resources and a change in land use.
The development of the plan for the change in land use was done by a self-selected few, outside a public process.
In the past, we have done great and creative things by engaging all-by holding public forums and conversations as to highest and best use of all our resources.
We respected the contributions of these public debates and the collective wisdom.
Such a process might have determined that the proposals before us are the best, the only way to achieve multiple objectives.
But, at this time, we do not know.
And, that is a shame.