What happened here is that one farmer with a good bit of acreage died. He left it all to his only nephew, who lives a state away and didn’t want to deal with it, so sold it to a developer during lockdowns. It’s turned into a “planned” community. Problem is, we don’t have any of the infrastructure to address a 25% instant growth. Our roads, sewers, post office, schools, etc can’t absorb this kind of growth so quickly. We have one main road, with about 4 or 5 traffic lights. It’s bumper to bumper both east and west bound now, at all hours of the day.
The approval for this happened when the town council meetings were held on Zoom. The people who this affected showed up in force when they finally let us start having meetings in person. It was too late by then. Approval by the council had already happened when they didn’t give the folks a voice. Every single person on the town council who voted for the new developer community has been ousted. Unfortunately, too little, too late.
This means our taxes will go up, to support new schools or expansion of facilities. I don’t think we can turn back the clock, but can we slow it down? I hope so.
“The people who this affected showed up in force when they finally let us start having meetings in person. It was too late by then. Approval by the council had already happened when they didn’t give the folks a voice.”
Why do you want to control what a private property owner does with their land?
The area my wife lived in before we married was almost a carbon copy. New schools....and school lockdowns the first week it was opened. Then there’s the new residents complaining that they’re being poisoned by the farmers crop dusting adjacent fields and wanting .gov to put a stop to it.......
Where I live, I absolutely don’t miss my days on the board of aldermen and the 2:00 a.m. phone calls demanding that I do something about the skunk, or deer or feral pig that’s in their front yard.