12-12-2017, 06:20 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: North Reading, MA and South Down Shores
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Originally Posted by Major
I blame the City Council and the Laconia Planning Board. For better or worse, Laconia has decided to pursue federal tax dollars through building section 8 housing. The people who take advantage of this type of housing require services and the infrastructure needed to address the issues they cause. We built a palace at the County Complex on North Main Street ($8,000,000) to help address these issues, after building palaces for the fire department, the middle school and the police station. We are spending $17,000,000 on the Colonial theater. For what, for the section 8 people who live downtown? I doubt they are interested in the theater.
Laconia would have been better served by following Meredith's model and by not investing in section 8 housing. You get what you subsidize.
I grew up in Laconia, and unfortunately regret building our home there.
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....and over $400k for the WOW Trail to date.
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