Lexington County has deteriorated thanks to so many subdivisions thrown up too quickly without rhyme or reason.

We don’t have enough emergency services to handle the explosion, and roads cannot provide delivery of those we have.

Without side roads, and with the nature of lake peninsulas, help cannot arrive in time. My neighbor fell and broke his back outside in 30-degree weather. It took the ambulance 45 minutes to arrive.

Neighbors kept him from going into shock. If he had a heart attack or stroke, he could have died.

My family is afraid to call 911. Time is best spent driving to a hospital.

POLLUTION CHOKES coves from subdivisions stripped of trees, topsoil, and vegetation. These new residents then hire lawn care, putting chemicals in the lake.

Developers build in designated wetlands. Coves are shallower. Fish have disappeared. If developers cared, we would not have these infrastructure problems, safety problems, basic quality of life problems.

We blame Mungo, DR Horton, Great Southern Homes, Essex and so on. But they are following rules our politicians made.

Politicians from town and county councils to state legislators allowed this fiasco.

We aren’t aware of what is coming until land is cleared. Politicians are meant to protect constituents but they haven’t tried.

That is, unless you are the right constituent. . . and a developer is.

WHEN THESE subdivisions pollute the lake, make traffic unsafe and deprive us of emergency services, a voter should feel violated by more than developers.

Politicians saw this coming, approved a lot of it, even pushed it through.

Lexington County Council is attempting to slow this development run amok with a 180-day moratorium to allow for a more strategic plan to stop the bloodletting. However, the Building Industry Association has filed lawsuit against the county.

This lawsuit proves their allegiance to making money over preserving our quality of life. This could have been avoided by our politicians. Instead, it’s been condoned by our elected officials and the voters written off as ignorant. Support the Lexington County 180-day moratorium on development. Write the council, your state representatives and senators.

Vote for those who help your quality of life, not who tear it down.

Cynthia Hope Clark lives in Chapin.