NewsLanc has received the following information and reprimand from a former fire chief of the Lancaster Township Fire Department:
“In response to your editor’s note in the above comment: Re-read the proposal. It calls for creating an access road from Millersville Pike to Atkins Avenue that will allow emergency vehicles to transit to Millersville Pike without ever having to enter your apartment complex.
You are starting to read way too much like LNP by cheerleading your own special interests. Talk about objectivity, or caring about what is best for the community as a whole.”
(The comments relate to an article, “Fire house / ambulances / police office now planned in residential neighborhood”, published Friday, August 21.)
If we misunderstood the proposal, we regret doing so. But why would someone put a building in the middle of a residential neighborhood and build a road across a public park to Millersville Pike when the building could be put on Millersville Pike next to Planet Fitness or elsewhere in the first place?
Is there any doubt that the public would greatly favor a Millersville Pike location? And shouldn’t the School District of Lancaster and Lancaster Township take into consideration the desires of their constituents?
Was not NewsLanc up front about its potential conflict of interests?
Is a neighborhood to remain silent rather than participate in a discussion of “what is best for the community as a whole”?
By only having a Millersville pike entrance you are not giving the best service to the community to the north like School Lane Hills and Hamilton Park . Having a dual access point is a plus to allow emergency vehicles the ability to go both north and south in our township. Where by having only a Millersville Pike entrance it makes the vehicle go to School House or up to West End to go north. There is one other item to look at, make Atkins two way for the first block to allow for the emergency equipment to either go to School House or up towards Maple Ave.