Editor,

According to your article of May 6, “Freeland Continues to Fight for Growth in Comp Plan.”

But just who is “Freeland?” Does Freeland belong to a handful of politicians and developers who would profit from a plan for growth? Or does it belong to local owners of residential property, who came to Freeland because they liked its character as a low-density rural crossroads?

Among my many friends, neighbors, and acquaintances here, I can think of only one who favors making Freeland a municipality — and he owns property in the business district.

Freeland’s growth is naturally limited by its geography, its hydrology, its geology, and its ecology. As civil engineers have noted, it is a poor place to build a city. The Island County Comprehensive Plan would do well to acknowledge such natural and organic limits on population density.

Using political means to force unnatural growth on Freeland may benefit a few, but let us not pretend that this is what Freeland wants.

LEW RANDALL

Freeland