{"id":3941,"date":"2014-01-14T18:21:29","date_gmt":"2014-01-15T01:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/?p=3941"},"modified":"2014-01-20T16:30:44","modified_gmt":"2014-01-20T23:30:44","slug":"sticky-zoning-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2014\/01\/sticky-zoning-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"sticky zoning laws"},"content":{"rendered":"

Writing them is a lot easier than cleaning them up.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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Commissioners, who citizens used to go to for reasonable treatment in the face of overwhelming bureaucratic power, has been replaced by heavy-handed zoning laws written by Leftist planners.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

In today’s Investors Business Daily, Chuck Devore makes the point<\/a>. The Soft Tyranny of government regulation crowds out real economic activity. <\/p>\n

Reducing. . .soft tyranny must begin with cutting red tape and those who make it<\/em>. 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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Elbert County’s BOCC should follow Devore’s advice and repeal zoning law. <\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

As Investors Business Daily noted in their house editorial today, “The battle that should be joined is the battle right now<\/em>.”<\/p>\n

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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 […]<\/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":[22,11,86],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3941","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-bocc","7":"category-planning","8":"category-zoning","9":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3941","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=3941"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4059,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3941\/revisions\/4059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}