Jackson County Moving Toward Subdivision Regulations
Submitted by Gulahiyi on Tue, 02/06/2007 - 7:55am
Monday night, the Jackson County Board of Commissioners took a step toward implementing an ordinance to regulate subdivision development, but an impending moratorium has raised the ire of local developers. http://gulahiyi.blogspot.com/2007/02/courage.html
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The Song Remains the Same
Congratulations are in order - and after that - education.
The prophecy of 'gloom & doom' is the same song the developers are singing here. But they have no proof. If you ask them to show you documentation to back their claims they can't provide it because it doesn't exist.
County commissioners across the country are in the unenviable position of having to please most of the people most of the time while knowing the people with the most money to spend will be unhappy some of the time. And they will be vocal about their unhappiness.
The key to effective planning is involving current citizens from all walks of life into the process.
- where there is no vision, the people perish -
the words are just as true today as they were when they were written.
Good Luck. Keep us posted on your success.
heh
You'd think we've talked about this or sumthin. ;)
Good on your commissioners
And good luck to you Gulahiyi.
The ire of local developers is something a whole lot of counties in NC are dealing with. Some in the housing industry, always the loudest, see any regulation as fightin' words. They honestly expect you to buy into their religion -- the consistent meme they'll peddle at County open-comment meetings: "You can't regulate us! Don't be fools!! The fate of the entire local and state economy ... ney, the fate of the free market ... ney, the fate of western civilization hangs on keeping our personal millions-making-machine fed with new-cleared land!"
NC is the fastest growing state in the nation. If development isn't rationally regulated here, AND SOON, it will eat up everything that makes this corner of God's world wonderful, inspiring and beautiful. We tell our children to "Save the rainforest". Yet, we don't blink an eye at the destruction of our own forests in our own backyard.