April 5 - Town of Falmouth

make that clear. Just to clarify the record I was the dissenting vote on the
Planning Board. This was not a unanimous Planning Board
recommendation for this article.
And I also want to make something clear: I have never used
the term evil developers. That was Mr. McNamara’s classification.
Developers are not evil. Developers are businessmen. Businessmen do a
lot of good for their communities. But businessmen can also do a lot of
harm. And when we get into a situation where you have businessmen
properly working according to the laws that we provide for them, and of
course in their own self-interest -- which is not evil. Which is, you know, a
basic principal of our economy, here. But when they do things like convert
pre-existing rental cottages or in-law apartments into condominiums, they
do things that have evil effects on this town.
One thing is it cuts into our stock of affordable housing when
they sell condos at market rate, increasing the market rate condos. It
affects affordable rentals when they take an existing rental off the market,
and that means that, that the law of supply and demand, prices for rentals
go up.
So, that’s one evil that’s accomplished by businessmen who
are not evil, but what they do has evil effects.
It affects our affordable housing stock, another evil, and this is
an even – we are faced with massive problems with wastewater treatment
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