Re: Daily Gripe: Driving into D.C.

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From: aloe
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 00:00

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craig sweet <crazy@bigsky.net> wrote:

>My experiences tell
>me that in most land use cases a handful of citizens determine the
>outcome...period.  You can interpert that anyway you like, but I
>have seen citizens waltz into a public hearing and lay the biggest
>song and dance on the governing body..calling black white, and up
>down, and left right....and generally they have been successful.
>The single biggest reason we do not have absolute property rights is
>not because of some planner...it's because of you and your neighbor
>and the inability to agree on what is good and decent.

Thank goodness many municipalities are deaf to the neighbors'
complaints. They take a bribe from the developer and give him anything
he wants. The only reason they turn anyone down is failure to grease
the right palm. Eventually, that builder goes broke and sells to an
insider. So everything that can be built will be.

--Buster <http://www.rev.net/~aloe/longisland>

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From: aloe@rev.net
Subject: Re: Daily Gripe: Driving into D.C.
Date: 1999/01/19
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