Posted on 11/06/2011 1:33:39 PM PST by Docs Galore
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has ruled recently that thousands of residences and other structures identified as being built within the hydroelectric project should be removed.
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They are doing so currently in central Arkansas - the Lake Maumelle watershed to be specific. The rights of private property owners will be restricted in the use of their land to conform with the land use plan. They are doing so under the guise of environmental protections and watershed protection, but it a thin veil of horse manure.
Google Lake Maumelle Watershed and you should get thousands of hits - both the liberal envirotard web stuffing of the ArkTimes, but also from Tea Pary groups who have been fighting the encroachment. An example of what it mandates if passed: 25% of your private lot must remain undisturbed, no sturctures over 2 stories tall, the height of fences is stipulated, etc. It is not about watershed protection as much as it is about removing your contol over private land that you own.
Well they have 12 more mos to make trouble all over the country and then as soon as we swear in Newt or Herman or even Perry the party is over for the EPA and all of these other rogue agencies. I am just counting the days.
Zoning laws are the favored means of control of local tyrants everywhere. The watermelon greens (green on the outside, red on the inside) have seen them as a way to institute detailed control at the state and federal level that would never be tolerated locally.
This is what is going on with Agenda 21 and numerous referendums and legislative systems around the country. In Arizona we surrendered a significant amount of local control over zoning to the State for just these sort of rules. It is taking property without compensation.
The forbidding of significant walls around a property (3 foot tall fences in front, no more than 6 foot in the back and sides), is to insure that the enforcement agents can see what is in your property to enforce the zoning codes.
Ok here is the silver lining if any in this. If the land is now worthless and cannot be sold that means its value is $0 so the taxes should be 0$ also!
Another Injury
Another step closer.
Thanks for the ping.
ask the folks at Nacimiento Lake how this will play out....
ask folks at Berreyessa .....
If you play with the Feds....you dance to their tune....
This is economic stimulus action for surveyors and appraisers in the affected location. The rest of us will just have to pay higher title insurance premiums.
Oh, forgot the biggest recipients of this stimulus action—the F’ing attorneys!
I think a great bumpersticker would be
SMASH THE WATERMELONS!
end environmental fascism!
Concerning your post. I'm optimistic, yet cautious. How many times have we put our faith in politicians and had them stab us in the back?
There is an untold story that could link the former P&Z Director who quit without notice, the approval of a new flood zone map and the sudden FERC demand to remove many homes, mostly along the Big Niangua past Bridal Cave (MM 7-8-9 etc.) The lake becomes more narrow in this section, which brings about the 670 zone, apparently.
No one knows where he went or why he quit so suddenly. I suspect there is a connection.
Clair McCackle may be the key to putting a stop to FERC. Blunt, sadly, has not taken much interest except to sign on Clair's bill prohibiting FERC’s actions.
The Lake of the Ozarks was built in 1929-1930.
You are welcome!
Generally they become local regulations at the county and municipal level, once those governing bodies vote them in,...which they are scripted to advocate.
Technically, federal government and major agencies now design and construct to International Building Code, and the 10 or so other adjunct codes all interlock together.
Reviewing how they are written, they follow the European model of codification, which tends to dictate the actual method of design calculations made during the design process, resulting in everything appearing to be ‘canned’ or off the shelf design.
Thanks, I do realize that...just wondering if you have a particular city/county you are talking about. Are you referencing ICLEI by any chance? I’m co-producer of a radio show, and we’ve been covering a lot of this Agenda 21 stuff...and want to talk with people who have gone thru it, or gotten OUT of it.... check out.... ISPYONSALEM.com
Thanks for the ping!
“Concerning your post. I’m optimistic, yet cautious. How many times have we put our faith in politicians and had them stab us in the back?”
Me too. I am hopeful that the GOP and a new president will take care of the problems. This is their last chance with us. If they fall down this time we will be very interested in a third party as I believe a lot of others will.
Yes. The article mentions 30 years as the age of many of the lakeshore cottages. But many of these hydro projects go back to FDR, or Hoover before him.
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