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The time has come for ALL Bridgeville officials to do some soul searching about…. what “the level of the quality of life and the opportunity to personally succeed” have been for the families, children, property and business owners in Bridgeville over the last 50 years, compared to the people in the 3 adjacent neighboring communities around Bridgeville.
No credible excuses can be offered to justify the lack of public facilities, the range of services, the instructional and recreational free time programs for Bridgeville families, that make up much of the quality of life in any community, not being able to even be compared to those in the 3 adjacent surrounding communities over the last 50 years.
Bridgeville families are currently paying 50% more of their modest $55,000-a-year incomes in taxes to Bridgeville, compared to the residents in the 3 adjacent neighboring communities. Another issue in Bridgeville, that has a major impact on the quality of life for residents is the almost annual flooding caused by the truly great commercial and residential development in the 7-square mile upstream water shed area in Upper St. Clair and Bethel Park, where sufficient storm water retention ponds were never built.
Over a period of more than 50 years, there has been a proven increase in the number of early deaths and shortened life spans among Bridgeville residents from pulmonary diseases and cancer, resulting from the pollution of the air and the flooding of their homes. The official death certificates record revealed this fact over many decades based on the record from the 125-year-old funeral home my family operated in Bridgeville.
There is a notable historical reason for federal, state and county funding agencies to provide the financing of the Comprehensive Multi-Community Re-Development Plan I have proposed. The reason is because it was the occupants of the Village of Bridgeville in 1794, being among 500 of the others in the area, who demonstrated the most heroic act of all of the other countless demonstrations thru out Eastern United States, in opposing the unfair federal tax imposed on the farmers and families during the Whiskey Rebellion.
They understood for what their personal individual rights were as Americans, well enough to burn the mansion of tax collector General John Neville to the ground, after the spokesman of the group of 500 demonstrators was shot and killed one evening, as was the spokesman of a smaller crowd of protestors the night before!
General Neville was the wealthiest individual in Western Pennsylvania at the time, had a plantation and was producing whiskey and selling it to the public, unlike most of the other residents in the region, who were producing it for their own use and being taxed for it!
The People in Bridgeville can perhaps, in some inadequate way be compensated for all of these injustices over half a century, if Bridgeville officials will now act with a self-sacrificing motive, aggressively pursue the necessary funding, implement the correct more comprehensive economic community development Plan, and demonstrate the courage to stay with the administrative decisions necessary to complete it.