GOTHAM: Fences there for Scouts

I find that I must respond to Patricia Wolford My Turn column printed Oct. 1. I took the time to talk to the developer and feel that the public needs to know the truth about Gotham Bay Estates.

The developer removed all the old barbed wire fence on the property and did not want any fence on his development. They share a common boundary with the Easton Boy Scout Camp, in which there is a shooting range. The Boy Scout camp requested that the developer place a fence to keep people out of the camp and away from the shooting range for their safety. Sounds perfectly reasonable to me.

How many miles of old barbed wire fence is there in Idaho and how many animals get caught in that fence? No one knows the answer but it happens.

Patricia states that people can read the "stupid No trespassing signs" and fences are not necessary. Obviously Patricia can not read the signs because she was trespassing on private property! She has no more right to walk off the road in Gotham Bay Estates than I do to walk through her property.

I would like to know what everyone involved in the construction industry thinks of her decry of no new homes, only buy existing homes. I'm sorry to inform you, Patricia, but others want to live in your kingdom, and you are not the east side housing czar that determines who is your neighbor and how big a house they want to live in.

DOUGLAS STAFFORD

Harrison