Editor, Gazette-Journal:

I would like to thank Supervisor Putt for voting no to the Mathews County Comprehensive Plan 2030 "Preserving and Sustaining the Pearl of the Chesapeake." I believe Ms. Putt stated that she was concerned about citizen rights.

Just let these words from page 101 of the plan speak for themselves. "Often, that recognition for environmental stewardship and pursuit of the common good falls secondary to personal interest; consequently, public education and regulatory controls are the tools most used to achieve established goals and benchmarks."

Public education and regulatory controls are the tools most used to achieve established goals and benchmarks. How many Mathews citizens believe they need to be re-educated, and/or controlled by more government regulation?

Those same county residents are indeed responsible enough to recycle their own paper and cardboard without governmental controls, which blessed Mathews County’s treasury wit...