To Frederick County Commissioners November 2003

 I wrote to you previously back in January about my interest in seeing Frederick 
County address the valuable resources of archeology in county zoning and development.
I am the citizen mentioned in the Executive Summary of the CZRC initial recommendations
who brought this subject before the CZRC Committee along with a coalition of local
and state groups.  My name is also before you as a candidate for the open position
on the Monocacy Scenic River Advisory Board.

I am writing to ask that you take the recommendations of the diverse panel of citizens
who put before you a broad consensus agreement on the zoning matters and not excise
the environmental regulations, including archeological review and the river setback
proposal.  I believe that these proposals are necessary and critical to the development
process of the county over the next decades.  We as a community have too much of
value to lose if we do not address these issues with conservation in mind.  They
are not onerous or excessive.

I am willing to meet with any of you and to bring before you a panel of experts 
to address these issues if you need any further clarification or support for these
matters.  I believe that there is broad public support for these issues.  Just as
in business, when it is said that for every customer service complaint, that there
is a dozen other folks who did not formally complain and another dozen that they
each influence with their criticism, I believe that for every citizen that addresses
you on this subject, there are many more silent citizens who would approve of your
support for these actions in the zoning regulations.

In brief, in archeology, we have as much important information in the ground around
Frederick County as anywhere in Maryland.  The Native American villages briefly 
studied up along Biggs Ford are known to be one of the top three sites in Maryland
in terms of importance.  There are at least two different overlapping Indian village
sites there that each lasted a few hundred years time, longer than we've had a city
of Frederick.  It would be wrong of us to ever destroy them, they could become a
major tourist attraction and provide valuable public education for our citizens.

The Monocacy River is a treasure also, it deserves your protection in our own self-interest,
for water supply, recreation, scenic beauty and as a buffer against the harmful 
effects of too many people living on these lands in the future.  It is part of our
responsibility for the environment and our children's interests.  We can begin to
insure its protection now.  Every setback buffer, every tree along it, every farm
that practices best management of nutrients must be a player in its protection.

These are the things I ask that you consider today.  Thank you for your time and
consideration!

Jack Lynch

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