Writing them is a lot easier than cleaning them up.
Elbert County Republicans ceded direction of Elbert County zoning law to the Left years ago. Under the Left, master planning – what used to be a guideline for officials – became, effectively, regulatory.
Discretion by elected County Commissioners, who citizens used to go to for reasonable treatment in the face of overwhelming bureaucratic power, has been replaced by heavy-handed zoning laws written by Leftist planners.
The zoning-regulation-writing machine continues, unabated. And still, Republicans have not figured out that you don’t defeat this totalitarianism by writing more zoning law.
In today’s Investors Business Daily, Chuck Devore makes the point. The Soft Tyranny of government regulation crowds out real economic activity.
Reducing. . .soft tyranny must begin with cutting red tape and those who make it. To do so, Congress must reassert its authority, taking back the enormous grants of power they have lent to the unelected professionals of the administrative state.
Elbert County’s BOCC should follow Devore’s advice and repeal zoning law.
And if the Planning Commission members won’t recommend the repeal of oppressive zoning laws, they should be continuously replaced until the BOCC finds people with the stomach to do it.
As Investors Business Daily noted in their house editorial today, “The battle that should be joined is the battle right now.”
