Am I alone in wondering who the city council sits for? What I read in the paper is always about funding some “new” way to bring more traffic and more people to Fountain Hills.

I don’t know about you folks, but I moved from Scottsdale in part because it had become too crowded. What spurs their seemingly never-ending urge to bring more people to our town? To “support businesses?”

The purpose of city government is not to “support businesses” but to administer civic services for the community as well as to fund and maintain the town’s infrastructure. Searching and implementing plans to increase population and population density or to lure people from other areas for “day trips” are not among their duties.

Those are in service to narrow, private interests.

I’ve been in business for close to 40 years and am very much pro-business. I also know that it is the responsibility of anyone starting a business to first analyze their chances for success in a community prior to opening.

To simply open a business and then demand that the city provide things which don’t currently exist in order to increase their business is neither proper nor beneficial to the overall population.

Neither is it a guarantee that if the town goes along with them, that they will still prosper. Different scale, for sure, but ask Glendale what they think of the “deal” their city council made for the professional sports complex.

Let’s forget the lagoon. Instead, let’s get many of the deteriorating neighborhood roads repaved with tax money, not debt, and keep our town quiet and beautiful.