Stop This Measure Before It’s Too Late

To The Editor:
If rental properties are designated as “resort” properties, then amenities do become very much the issue, because it is the amenity itself, not the house, which will be abused. This will turn neighborhoods which are occupied by homeowners spending large amounts of attention and money to maintain beautiful, quiet and genteel properties into unregulated, unsupervised, disrupted and overcrowded homes because of the amenities.
Who would care to live in a traditionally well-manicured residential home now surrounded by abundances of parked cars, accumulated trash, amplified noise, rowdy and loud behavior in backyard swimming pools, young people pushing the limits on acceptable behavior, beset by partners? If anything, this contributes to a lowering of desire to buy or rent and perhaps significant loss of value.
There are owners in the immediate vicinity who are older and infirm who will undoubtedly be impacted by the above inconveniences . To be specific, I have chronic progressive multiple sclerosis and specifically chose my home for its quiet and tranquil location. Am I to suffer the annoyances simply for reasons of aggressive reality practice? Am I not entitled to the peace and quiet for which very reason I have chosen to buy my dwelling?
If you allow greed and manipulation, and the anticipation of financially fruitful consequences to realtors to undermine this Eden, you will have undermined and insulted the traditional essence of Avalon. Once allowed, you can never go back. Once word gets out that Avalon will allow this type of behavior, the borough we cherish will irrevocably be tarnished. I would not want to be the one to hear, 50 years from now, what they did to the community which was here 50 years ago, before greed ruined it.
I urge you to stop this measure before it is too late.
DR. BRUCE T. CHODOSH
Avalon