NOTICE! Public Hearings on "Working Lands Protection Plan"
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Urgent! |
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Urgent! |
Moore County Planning & Community Development Department, in collaboration
with the Moore County Soil and Water Conservation District office, and the
County’s Cooperative Extension Department will host three public comment
sessions for the community during the week of Monday, January 23-26, 2012.
Public comment sessions will be held at the following locations, dates and
times:
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Aberdeen Elementary School Auditorium
503 North Sandhills Blvd., Aberdeen, NC 28315 Monday, January 23, 2012 from 9:00am-11:00am Vass-Lakeview Elem. School Media Center/Library 141 James Street, Vass, NC 28394 Tuesday, January 24, 2012 from 3:30pm-5:30pm Robbins Elementary School Auditorium 268 Rushwood Road, Robbins, NC, 27325 Thursday, January 26, 2012 from 6:00pm-8:00pm |
At the direction of the Moore County Board of Commissioners, given during their November 15, 2011 regular meeting, County staff will host a series of public comment sessions focused on the Moore County Working Lands Protection Plan being considered for adoption by the Commissioners. Farming and forestry stakeholders and other interested citizens in the community are invited to attend the public comment sessions to identify their comments and concerns regarding the proposed draft plan.
To view/download a digital copy of the draft plan you may click the following link: http://www.moorecountync.gov/index.php/en/working-lands-protection-plan. To view a printed copy of the draft plan you may stop by the Moore County Soil and Water Conservation District, Cooperative Extension, and/or Planning Department offices. Additionally a printed copy of the draft plan is on file at the following Moore County Public Libraries: Main Library in Carthage (101 Saunders St.); Aberdeen Library (100 N. Poplar St.); Pinebluff Library (305 E. Baltimore Ave); Robbins Library (161 Magnolia Dr.); Vass Library (128 Seaboard St.). If you can not access one of the plans on file at one of the above mentioned locations and/or you would like to receive a printed copy of the plan, please contact the Moore County Planning & Community Development office at 910-947-5010.
If you have questions or would like to submit comments on the plan please contact:
Moore County Soil and Water District
707 Pinehurst Avenue
P.O. Box 908
Carthage, NC 28327
910-947-5183, extension 3
Moore County Planning & Community Development Department
1048 Carriage Oaks Drive
PO Box 905
Carthage, NC 28327
910-947-5010
This proposal is not what it seems!
Property Owners
Beware! This plan is full of policies which would severely restrict
your property rights and which would give special interest
organizations, regional commissions and unelected boards control over
your property rights throughout Moore County. Especially onerous is the
5-mile Buffer Zone which is proposed in this "Plan" around Fort Bragg
and Camp Mackall.
Further development is to be curtailed for all undeveloped lands within this proposed 5-mile buffer zone. That means existing property owners would be prohibited from sub-dividing their property, from improving their property, from exploiting any minerals or natural resources on their property (other than current use). No road improvements, utility improvements, etc. are allowed in order to buffer the military reservations from further encroaching development. These restrictions will greatly devalue your land and property. No payments or compensation is provided for the harm done to your property and for the seizure of personal wealth that these restrictions represent.
Further, the map below shows the boundary of the 5-mile buffer:
Further development is to be curtailed for all undeveloped lands within this proposed 5-mile buffer zone. That means existing property owners would be prohibited from sub-dividing their property, from improving their property, from exploiting any minerals or natural resources on their property (other than current use). No road improvements, utility improvements, etc. are allowed in order to buffer the military reservations from further encroaching development. These restrictions will greatly devalue your land and property. No payments or compensation is provided for the harm done to your property and for the seizure of personal wealth that these restrictions represent.
Further, the map below shows the boundary of the 5-mile buffer:
Vass and part of Cameron is included within the buffer zone. All of Southern Pines, Aberdeen, and
Pinebluff fall within the buffer zone. Even part of Pinehurst. Further development is precluded in these
towns if this buffer zone is implemented!
Now, someone please explain to me why the Town Councils of these towns would willingly surrender their towns to a regional authority and to the state? Why would they kill development in their towns, causing a slow death of the towns to begin? Why would our elected representatives do this to their friends, neighbors, and constituents? Why would the County Commission cede so much of their county and their own authority? How can these people seriously consider restrictive land use plans which effectively destroy the property rights and land values of their friends, family, and neighbors? How could so much land value be seized by government without any just compensation to the property owners and businesses who are harmed?
It simply makes no sense other than a power grab by unelected commissions and special interest groups.
Most of the "Working Lands Protection Plan" is filled with fluff and innocuous text. The document is puffed up to look impressive and to discourage a thorough reading. However, the real intent is scattered like nuggets through the muddy puffery. Most of the document is filled with local statistics, history, local flavor, pictures and maps. The meat of the proposal is contained, but obscured, in the first pages and in the end pages of the document -- i.e. the ones containing the policy listings and implementation steps. The reader must carefully read and think about the implications of these as they have been written to sound as vague and innocuous as possible.
If you care about your property rights and property values. If you care about who controls how you can use your land, what kind of building permits you may obtain, who will control your zoning, etc. If you care about the future growth and prosperity of your community. If you care about your neighbors, your friends and your family in Moore County. If you care about any of these, then you should go to one or all of the above public hearings and voice your opposition to the "Working Lands Protection Plan". If this "Plan" is approved, Moore County will never be the same, and further development and growth will be stifled. We have all seen what happens when areas fall into stagnation. Is that what you want for Moore County and your town?
Now, someone please explain to me why the Town Councils of these towns would willingly surrender their towns to a regional authority and to the state? Why would they kill development in their towns, causing a slow death of the towns to begin? Why would our elected representatives do this to their friends, neighbors, and constituents? Why would the County Commission cede so much of their county and their own authority? How can these people seriously consider restrictive land use plans which effectively destroy the property rights and land values of their friends, family, and neighbors? How could so much land value be seized by government without any just compensation to the property owners and businesses who are harmed?
It simply makes no sense other than a power grab by unelected commissions and special interest groups.
Most of the "Working Lands Protection Plan" is filled with fluff and innocuous text. The document is puffed up to look impressive and to discourage a thorough reading. However, the real intent is scattered like nuggets through the muddy puffery. Most of the document is filled with local statistics, history, local flavor, pictures and maps. The meat of the proposal is contained, but obscured, in the first pages and in the end pages of the document -- i.e. the ones containing the policy listings and implementation steps. The reader must carefully read and think about the implications of these as they have been written to sound as vague and innocuous as possible.
If you care about your property rights and property values. If you care about who controls how you can use your land, what kind of building permits you may obtain, who will control your zoning, etc. If you care about the future growth and prosperity of your community. If you care about your neighbors, your friends and your family in Moore County. If you care about any of these, then you should go to one or all of the above public hearings and voice your opposition to the "Working Lands Protection Plan". If this "Plan" is approved, Moore County will never be the same, and further development and growth will be stifled. We have all seen what happens when areas fall into stagnation. Is that what you want for Moore County and your town?
