Community Development

Ron Fichtner, a retired systems analyst and statistician for the CDC, submits that Truro is fast approaching a critical tipping point, having exceeded our environmental and economic carrying capacity. While housing demand in Truro is widely debated, the more urgent issue is the town’s limited ability to sustain continued growth. Water supply and wastewater constraints signal environmental overload, while rapidly rising budgets, taxes, and debt reveal mounting fiscal strain. Without a coordinated growth plan and restraint on new development and spending, Truro risks long-term environmental degradation and financial instability. He makes a case for Town voters and officials to say “enough.”