Land for Tomorrow
Submitted by itismyopinion on Sat, 07/14/2007 - 9:57pm
One of the major issues facing North Carolina is the loss of forest and farmland to development.
This loss of natural area, open space, and farm land does more harm than just the loss of rural atmosphere and scenic area. The development brings about more traffic, which eventually brings about more road construction, longer trips to get from one point to another as the number of traffic lights increase. The development is a major cause of the overcrowding of schools and the issues we now see in Wake County concerning year round schools.
Part of the effort to preserve land from development is the land for tomorrow program, landfortomorrow.org. This organization, a combination of the efforts of a number of other preservation and land conservation organizations, is actively seeking the passage of a statewide bond referendum to spend $1 billion over the next five years to protect the state’s land and water resources.
The majority of the members of the NC House and a majority of the members of the NC Senate have co-signed bills (HB 990 and SB 1522).
Of course, the fate of the Land for Tomorrow program is now caught up in the budget negotiations. I hope people will contact their state Representative and Senators and ask them to support the land for tomorrow bond issue.
FP by Anglico, a long-standing supporter of Land for Tomorrow
How does this Navy OLF
plan fall under these bills?
The Navy is going to condemn 33,000 acres of land for an OLF somewhere. This plan is going to strike directly at these bills. Yet the GA and our governor is trying to figure out some land to offer to the Navy that goes contrary to this.
These 33,000 acres will either be bought by the Navy or will require folks to sign restrictive easements that will effectively take away any options for the land owner, or the state.
So if so many folks have supported this bill, then why are these same folks not telling us what community they are willing to screw?
If the Navy gets there OLF, the state and local governments lose 30,000+ acres of land. These lands go to the federal government and are out of our control.
We lose any rights to protect, develope or do anything with these lands without the permission of the US Navy first. Are these bills addressing this?
Great questions, Parmea
I hope someone from LFT will come by to answer them.
Do good. Be nice. Have fun.
OLF
I do not speak for Land for Tomorrow or any of the other organizations.
But many of the individual supporters of the LFT bonds, both individuals like me and elected officials, oppose the current Navy plans for the OLF. With the Governor, both US Senators (despite being Republican), and many of the US House delegation against it, I think that the current OLF plan is dead. (Not that we shouldn't keep fighting, in case it come back).
The primary problem with the Navy's proposal is the proximity of the OLF to an important wildlife area. The noise from the jets would be a problem. The need to restrict what farmer planted was a direct result of the large bird population
In addition to protecting an important bird habitat in Eastern NC, there is the problem of loss of land to development in the rest of the state, particularly fast growing areas such as the Triangle. Land for Tomorrow bonds will help to protect land from development.
We are now losing about 100,000 acres of farm and forest land per year to development. In 2005, North Carolina lost 1,000 farms.
This continual loss must be stopped. The land for tomorrow bonds is one step in the right direction. There are other proposals that are also needed.
The People Have Spoken,
The People Have Spoken, parmea. The Gov needs to listen.
No Quarter. No mercy. Only JUSTICE.
I wouldn't call this 'primary' there are so many reasons this OLF is wrong you can't even begin to define "the" reason.
This is pure and total HS: