As per your February 12 article about the Town of Highland Planning Board, “Planners recommend brewery and parking changes,” I’m not a developer. I know The River Reporter likes to discredit people with words like “developer,” but you could have just as easily used the phrase “community investor,” “home designer,” or “home builder.” Or even “Charles Petersheim, award-winning designer of regionally inspired homes who has brought national attention to Eldred multiple times, as well as generated $8,000,000 of taxable real estate in Highland….” I haven’t developed land for nine years, and when I did, it was on a microscopic scale.

Charles Petersheim

Eldred, NY