I’ve been assured the days of the BOCC accepting partisan regulatory language from ad hoc citizen committees for incorporation into county zoning regulations are over.
This begs questions of what new hobbies Rick Brown, Ric Morgan, Grant Thayer, Paul Crisan, Tony Corrado, their assorted chums and Green acolytes, will find to occupy themselves on Tuesday evenings. Nothing springs to mind off the top of my head that might satisfy their needs for social justice and environmental redemption, absent dictatorial empowerment.
A local bowling alley with an attached bar might be nice for them to repair to on Tuesdays, but under the wisdom of their planning commission hats they’ve probably turned thumbs down on those sorts of plans dozens of times. Had they not done so at least they could topple a few pins and imagine the sound of cracking an environment-despoiling conservative skull, over a few brews.
This isn’t to say the planning work product of purely governmental origin will be any better. I set the bar pretty high in favor of free markets, contractual rights and remedies, personal responsibilities, and adult citizenship in my planning expectations — principles which planning documents from Elbert County don’t generally recognize on the part of applicants.
In Elbert County, planning applicants are treated as some sub-human species who have forsaken citizenship — incapable of exiting a bathroom without a planning document for cleaning themselves properly, complete with inspections, time-line loops, bureaucratic blessings, and penalties for non-compliance, not to mention the elaborate building code specifications for the construction, location, and approval of such conveniences.
I contingently welcome this BOCC planning epiphany, lament that it came too late to save us from the mess of Special District Regulations, and eagerly hope for a reversal in the heretofore repressive planning saga of Elbert County.
Freedom built a great country. It could build a great county too.
Farewell dodos. Happy trails.
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