{"id":1016,"date":"2008-10-16T21:23:31","date_gmt":"2008-10-17T04:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2008\/10\/16\/government-not-by-the-people\/"},"modified":"2008-11-07T08:43:40","modified_gmt":"2008-11-07T15:43:40","slug":"government-not-by-the-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2008\/10\/government-not-by-the-people\/","title":{"rendered":"government of the planners, by the planners, for the planners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/pa167748.jpg\" title=\"October 16, 2008\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/pa167748.jpg\" alt=\"October 16, 2008\" height=\"162\" width=\"216\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><font color=\"#000080\" size=\"4\">Summarized History for Bill Number <\/font><\/strong><strong><font color=\"#000080\" size=\"4\">HB07-1246<\/font><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><font color=\"#000080\" size=\"2\">04\/12\/2007 Signed by the Speaker of the House<br \/>\n04\/16\/2007 Signed by the President of the Senate<br \/>\n04\/16\/2007 Sent to the Governor<br \/>\n04\/25\/2007 Governor Action &#8211; Signed<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/1246_enr.pdf\" title=\"House Bill 1246\">House Bill 1246<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Excerpt:<\/strong> \u00a0THE MASTER PLAN OF A MUNICIPALITY SHALL BE AN ADVISORY DOCUMENT TO GUIDE LAND DEVELOPMENT DECISIONS; HOWEVER, THE PLAN <u>OR ANY PART THEREOF<\/u> MAY BE MADE BINDING BY INCLUSION IN THE MUNICIPALITY&#8217;S ADOPTED SUBDIVISION, ZONING, PLATTING, PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENT, OR OTHER SIMILAR LAND DEVELOPMENT REGULATIONS AFTER SATISFYING NOTICE, DUE PROCESS, AND HEARING REQUIREMENTS FOR LEGISLATIVE OR QUASI-JUDICIAL PROCESSES AS APPROPRIATE.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Elbert County&#8217;s Master Plan is <em>already<\/em> referenced in zoning, subdivision and 1041 regulations, prior to the enactment of this legislation.\u00a0 This is why the BOCC is trying to remove references to the Master Plan from county regulations.\u00a0 Elbert County has always had an <em>advisory<\/em> Master Plan, and unless references to the Master Plan are removed from county regulations, the Master Plan may be held to be regulatory by default, as it was in the SVV case.<\/p>\n<p>Note that the new law also contains <em>notice, due process and hearing<\/em> requirements.\u00a0 The Master Plan has never been <em>noticed and heard<\/em> in the county under the terms that it would become a regulatory document.\u00a0 This fact would appear to present a due process problem to the assumption that the plan is already regulatory.<\/p>\n<p><em>To remove all doubt, I support 100% the current commissioners&#8217; intent to firmly establish the Master Plan as advisory by removing all references to it from county regulations.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>I <u>condemn with extreme prejudice<\/u><\/em><em> the planning commissions&#8217; attempts to make the Master Plan regulatory over all property holders in the county without holding an election on the question.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>THE PLANNING COMMISSION DOES NOT REPRESENT THE PEOPLE.\u00a0 I HOPE THE NEW BOCC CLEANS HOUSE OF THE LOT OF THEM. <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summarized History for Bill Number HB07-1246 04\/12\/2007 Signed by the Speaker of the House 04\/16\/2007 Signed by the President of the Senate 04\/16\/2007 Sent to the Governor 04\/25\/2007 Governor Action &#8211; Signed House Bill 1246 Excerpt: \u00a0THE MASTER PLAN OF A MUNICIPALITY SHALL BE AN ADVISORY DOCUMENT TO GUIDE LAND DEVELOPMENT DECISIONS; HOWEVER, THE PLAN [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,28],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1016","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-planning","7":"category-treachery","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}