Help Stop SMART GROWTH - Regional Planning has arrived in the USA

mukraker

[inquest]

A good example which is coming to the fore now is water issues which demand region wide planning and even restriction of development.

Restriction of development is not necessary. Government's role with regard to water can simply be limited to setting the rates required for consumption of said water. Then people's actions will adjust accordingly, same as with any other resource.

When one are becomes heavily populated, the traffic impacts are felt in a much larger radius, in other communities.

That's not a reason to restrict development or population of a certain area. It may be a reason to restrict motor traffic itself, but not property rights.

Also roads and highway management, planning and design are not done effectively on a local level.

That's a completely separate matter from private property rights - except, of course, when it involves issues of eminent domain, but that's another subject.

[mukraker]

THANK YOU ALL so very much. I knew this was something more widespread than just here in WI, but I wasn't sure just how bad it was nation-wide. And with the full support of the UN it can't be good. Thanks for all the resource links too.

[Nix 2]

We had a heck of an example of that when Seven Springs decided to build its own reservoire. Our well water nearly disappeared. Now we have the same thing going on in Farmington, PA where the owner of Nemacolin Woodlands, Joe Hardy, also the owner of 84 Lumber, is actually running for county commissioner.
There are already water use problems there. It can't do anything but get worse.

How Nemacolin emptied the wells.

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Lakes Louise and Carol were also added and Beaver Creek was developed into the excellent trout stream it is today.
By the end of 1987, the Woodlands Golf Academy was established and within another year the Woodlands Spa opened. Soon afterward, the Gazebo, Lake PJ and the Panorama Pavilion were constructed. Fallingbrook miniature golf course, located next to the Caddy Shack, opened in July 1992. Putting under waterfalls and rock formations proved to be an enjoyable and challenging past time for guests.
In May 1995, Nemacolin opened its $2 million Paradise Pool, adjacent to the Woodlands Spa. The larger-than-Olympic-style pool was built to resemble pools from the Riviera and Hawaii. Its distinctive design elements include intricate tile and ceramic border, a swim up bar and a whirlpool for twelve. Food and beverage service can be enjoyed on the sun deck.
To ensure the resort's place as a year-round destination, Mystic Mountain, a downhill ski area, opened December 1995. Five slopes tied together by eight trails provide some twenty five acres of ski terrain.
Add 125 luxury rooms, townhouses, and private homes, and there is water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink.

ANY time you hear *sustainable growth*, it's socialist at its core. Fight now or lose private property and property rights forever.
McGinty is demonic, Kay. Keep up the good fight. You know how it goes around here. And there is always another scheme right around the bend.

[Kay Ludlow]

McGinty is demonic

LOL! I'll have to keep that terminology in mind...

In my experience, the development that ends up having the most negative impact on the neighbors is the one that government planners had the biggest hand in. Too often I'm seeing developers and planners working together for their mutual interests. The planning staff doesn't appear to be under any obligation to consider the rights of individuals, but they are obligated to watch for opportunities for "free" money from the Fed or State government. So if a developer tells them that they can do things that would make local government eligible for grants, that ends up driving the decision-making and commonsense goes out the window!