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<p>I enjoyed the June 7 article titled &#8220;Sugar Notch dress factory finally razed.&#8221; But in its heyday, the factory provided jobs for area residents, including my friend&#8217;s mother, Mrs. Kinney.</p><p>Now the borough council&#8217;s members should encourage the development of new housing and new jobs.</p><p>I discussed a good option for the 50-plus acres that Earth Conservancy had prepared for single-family housing in Sugar Notch, next to the Hanover soccer fields. But after the housing bust effectively killed any chance of building there, I think the council should re-zone the land for multi-family housing so that a federal tax credit, low-income housing project can be built on the site.</p><p>Recently, a beautiful low-income housing development, called Laurel Woods, was built in Scranton. It looks like a single-family development because the units are single-family homes, but they are built in twos, just like &#8220;double-blocks.&#8221; They look like separate single homes, but they are connected by the garages.</p><p>The Sugar Notch Council raised our property taxes by more than 40 percent last year. If the town does not consider multi-family zoning for the Earth Conservancy lands, it is likely that taxes will be going up again. Let&#8217;s build our town up, when we are not busy tearing it down.</p><p><strong>Mario Fiorucci</strong></p><p>Councilman</p><p>Sugar Notch</p><style>
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Letter to the Editor: Pave way for multi-family housing in Sugar Notch