Letter: Allow bakery in Central Islip

Regarding "Bakery bid nixed by panel's vote" [News, Aug. 1], as a member of a family that lived in Central Islip for more than five generations, until a couple of years ago, it just blows my mind how the "last in" group has ruled again.

My family has watched as Central Islip has grown from a rural town with farms to the town it is today. I've heard the same complaints over and over again: There are too many houses and not enough industry. Now they have a chance to get a company to come in, and the people who just moved in want to stop it.

What did those people think was going to be put on that tract of land? This was a truck terminal in the past, and people who lived near it didn't complain. I guess the people living there now are more important.

These will be the same people who will vote down the school budget, too. Don't the people in Central Islip need jobs? Would jobs help the area? Would jobs help to get all those foreclosed, abandoned houses occupied? Would this bakery help the tax base?

Is concern over "noise" a real reason to nix this project?

Everett Melius, Shoreham