I am writing regarding your upcoming decision with respect to the proposed artificial turf field. The issue has certainly been quite polarizing in our community, with both firmly entrenched support and similarly entrenched opposition.

It is now your task to decide. The project has been attacked for its cost, its support of an artificial playing surface, its affront to “rural” values, its negative health and environmental impacts, its support of urbanization, and the reality that it will require the removal of several trees.

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