Centex Practices Unsustainable Development

As an avid follower of your publication since its inception, I always look forward to the valuable information that comes with each issue. However, the article about Centex Homes (Newsbriefs, EBN Vol. 10, No. 11) is highly misleading. We are intimately aware of how Centex does business from dealing with them on a project they are involved in right next door to us, the Riddle Farm, on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.

Although Centex insinuates that they practice “sustainable development” by pledging $2.25 million to The Nature Conservancy over the next three years to support preserves in three states, they sure are not practicing responsible land use or good business here in our community.

On a sensitive 1,000-acre [400 ha] waterfront tract, Centex is destroying the most ecologically significant 500-acre [200 ha] contiguous coastal maritime forest in our entire watershed and dozens of acres of nontidal wetlands. Their project is a classic example of what NOT to do according to everything I’ve ever read in your fine publication:

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