It is good to live in a country where you can provide an opinion and hopefully can remain civil to another. Substance over image is what is a necessity if proper growth is to be achieved regardless if it is on a local level or the county level. enquirerjournal/news/x1736889175/Rushing-Pinch-sewer-service-to-control-growth#.VJQsBxp0DVw.facebook David Waddell • 13 hours ago Council Member King, You are a fantastic representative of the Corporation that calls itself the Town of Indian Trail, and serve the stakeholders who direct how it defines forward very well. However, you seem to have forgotten that you werent elected by the corporation, and you still havent figured out that the stakeholders are not a representation of what the taxpayers want, but a hand-picked group of individuals by the towns administration. You might want to take a good look at who is calling the shots behind the scenes. Its a little oligarchy, and you are their water boy. Free market? Property Rights? You wouldnt know what either term meant if it bit you on your posterior, you delusional half-wit! Look at your own town plan and ordinances. Village circles defining what people can and cannot do with their property. Businesses cant operate without permission, and are harassed by code enforcement over the most miniscule things. Permits required for construction when we already have one bureaucracy to deal with. Landscaping requirements for property and fines when trees die, as if the town was some umbrella Home Owners Association. Your board ignores the town managers stonewalling of repeated attempts by residents requests for information that belongs to them. People who have had chickens in their back yard for eggs or a hobby are told that they can no longer have them because of zoning changes. Another told that his business cannot open because his paperwork wasnt in order, costing him tens of thousands of dollars. By the way, the second property he was going to build on? Still vacant. He isnt interested in doing business in the Town limits ever again. Cant say I blame him. Then theres the flooding of peoples properties due to adjacent commercial development - try finding the site plans for the development where the liquor store is. Good luck. How about the $360,000 in taxpayer money on the crown jewel of Indian Trail at the Sun Valley area? You call that a free market? Your comment about the strip mall that nobody wants... What the heck is that supposed to mean? Oh, I bet I know which one. If it wasnt within your Downtown Overlay, the business restrictions that regulate who the owner of the commercial property can and cannot lease to wouldnt be so regulated. Hows the public-private partnership with the basketball courts going? It was interesting to hear about a cross-dressing fashion show in a building owned by a Christian business thats subsidized by taxpayer money. A free market wouldnt have placed taxpayer money in such a situation. And it wouldnt put the taxpayer millions of dollars into debt to build amenities (thats what a park is - you might call it infrastructure, but it isnt). A Town that promotes a free market wouldnt have an economic development coordinator, nor would it prohibit street vendors. If you truly stood for property rights, you would burn the UDO and Town Plan, and fire your manager. But you dont, so you wont. Good luck on your bid for re-election. Looks like youre going to need it! 2 • Reply • Share › Avatar Christopher King • 2 days ago Good for Commissioner Aikmus for not trying to interfere with a free market and truly standing up for protecting property rights. Manipulating or as Commissioner Rushing says “control growth” by restricting sewer capacity is a horrible idea for the county. The only thing the county will accomplish by trying to “control growth” is watch developing municipalities take complete control of their sewer capacity by creating their own public works department for the purpose of expanding growth. In the end, the county loses what little control they have in municipal government, and lost revenue from customers that move to a new water/sewer network. But I wholehearted agree with Mr. Rushing about protecting property rights, even if it’s a strip mall no one wants or a 330 unit apartment complex in the middle of town. But for a point of clarity Mr. Rushing, when you say “the county would just provide sewer connections for lower density than what the town zoned”, is that your way of saying the county will only provide connection for a 200 unit apartment complex, not 330 as zoned? If so, arent you going against your own stance for protecting property rights? After all, it’s not the town that’s requesting to build 330 units; it’s the property owner. • Reply • Share › Avatar Stony Rushing Christopher King • 19 hours ago Mr. King, as an elected official I do hope you realize the difference between adding value to property with a service that is not afforded to every county resident and protecting property rights. I know in the past you have supported candidates who were in favor of stopping R-40 growth on well and septic tanks when school facilities were not adequate. Of course that only affected residents in unincorporated areas of the county not projects in your town. You agree that sewer is our little control we have in growth. The fact that we have not exercised that control has led to horrible situations in the past. Just as three votes can rezone property, three votes can also stop expansion of sewer facilities. Three votes can also shift millions of dollars away from sewer and work to gain new water customers in Union County. I would rather plan with the municipalities to prepare for how we grow along with the BOE as partners. When we hear from our staff what you and I already believe to be true, we can begin to plan for the best possible use of our utilities. Just as the BOCC is responsible for budgeting, we are also responsible for watching out for the public interest in utilities. • Reply • Share › Avatar Christopher King Stony Rushing • 12 hours ago Mr. Rushing you are 100% correct sir, regardless if it’s Union County or the Town of Indian Trail, it only takes three votes... but both of us already know that. Mr. Waddell, great to hear from you, I hope all is well. Merry Christmas! • Reply • Share ›
Posted on: Fri, 19 Dec 2014 14:40:29 +0000
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