YOU MAY NOT CONTROL YOUR PROPERTY SOON

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YOU MAY NOT CONTROL YOUR PROPERTY SOON
In 1999 we began to repetitively hear news about our o-zone rating and non-compliance with the EPA federal Clean Air Act. During this same time period our water also came under question by the local authorities with special concerns because of the drought. All these questions seemed appropriate at the time. People are naturally concerned about their actions and the result to our living environment. We also began to hear about "urban sprawl" and occasionally "Smart Growth". Cities across the country began to notice this "crisis" and implement plans to restrict growth and control sprawl. Portland, Oregon is one of the test cases where it now costs 10 times more to purchase a home than before this panic reaction set in. Soon other places began to follow suit and now we have several big cities "controlling" growth. All of these places using "smart growth" methods to restrict use of "resources" such as land and water. Kansas is now fighting to keep farmers from having to pay for their own water in their ponds or streams. Fencing off streams is becoming common. In Alabama you can’t spread chicken manure from November 15 to February 15 because of violation of environmental rules.
Locally, Atlanta has begun to pass some of these same laws and appoint commissions who have authority over elected officials. The State of Alabama has been encouraging our Officials (Representatives and Senators) to attend classes in Atlanta where they can see how to duplicate these plans. We are currently following Georgia almost step by step to enact this same type legislation as early as Feb. 6, 2001. Our governor has created a "Commerce Commission" by Executive Order #6 last year, followed by a Environmental Commission in July 2000. Both of these groups have "appointed members" recommending "broad - based" initiatives to our governor by March and January 2001, respectively. " We have had the Commerce Commission in Blount County just a few weeks ago with a representative "public meeting on planning. Maps were shown at this meeting showing the area make-up of population, car ownership, water access as well as "race" makeup.
The Environmental Group (ACEI) has been meeting to form "consensus" about the publics interest in the environment. It should be noted that a list of 60 items was presented in Montgomery just last week by this commission which will go to the Governor by January 15th for possible Legislative action. One of the items is a "Smart Growth Commission" which will work with our Commerce Commission to implement their plans. Plans such as commission members getting $1000.00 / day pay plus expenses, more "enforcement" power for ADEM, creation of several new environmental boards to enforce things such as storm water run-off (that any water falling from above on your land), water withdrawal permits (includes your wells), etc., all funded by in many cases the "general fund" (remember amendment 1 money).
If you listen to the "big media" you would think we are drinking muddy water and need to wear gas mask to work. While if you research in a little further than one article you will find just as much documentation that are NOT in a global warming situation and that current precaution on the environment are actually working. However, these reports will not grow the "environmental crisis" movement forward.
We are following Georgia one step at a time. How do we know? Just ask your local politicians who attended the Region 2020 meeting in September of this year. They received a report from the governors office telling of these two groups and that they would "impact everyone" in this state soon.
Historically almost 2 years ago in Georgia, when the EPA began to pressure the State of Georgia to become compliant with the Federal Clean Air Act. A incumbent Governor lost his election and a new Governor pressed forward with legislation creating a broad called the Georgia Regional Transportation Authority (GRTA). This "appointed" board was given almost total control of the state through Georgia SB 57 in early 1999. This board could not only over-ride transportation decisions but also any regional development in the state, region by region. This control included included a code section allowing GRTA to "activate jurisdiction " over county governments, i.e. commissions and their chairs. This particular authority was recently announced to the Cobb County Commission in a letter dated May 22, 2000.
GRTA also has by law a working relationship with the Georgia Environmental Facilities Authority, although they too fall sub-ordinate to the GRTA. "Smart Growth" became the buzz-word and the Georgia Legislature created the Greenspace Commission in July, 2000 encouraging counties and cities to adopt policies and rules which will enable them to preserve at least 20% "greenspace" of their land areas. "Greenspace" means a permanently protected land and water, including agricultural and forestry land, that is in its undeveloped natural state or is restored to be consistent with, one or more listed goals for natural resource protection or informal recreation."
According to the Alabama Commission Environmental Initiatives (ACEI) the public has 15 days (December 12, 2000 - January 5, 2001) to respond to there broad "initiatives" before they are presented to Governor Siegelman on January 15, 2001. There are NO suggested implementation plans attached to these initiatives. You can see most of these initiatives on the internet at the following address:
http://www.edu/depart/epic/December6meeting.html
or feel free to contact me at my office in Blount county anytime.
Take this opportunity to inform your congressman about how you feel concerning this issue. It will be too late soon.
Joyce L. Perrin
79544 U S Hwy 278
Blountsville, Al 35031
(205) 429-4672
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Indeed this is troublesome! Add in the new "desertification" treaty that puts 70% of the worlds land in the treaty restrictions and we all may be living in "Refugee camps"!
 
If you pay property taxes, and you stop paying they take your land away.... therefore it's really rent isn't it? What does this mean? It means you already don't own your land...
 
Excuse me, but Oregon has had the LCDC (Land Conservation and Development Commission) since the ealry 70's. The goal was to plan and limit the sprawl of urban areas into farmlands and wilderness areas. Originally, it was a great idea. Unfortunately, it has become perverted by powermad bureaucrats in the agency.

The practical effect of the LCDC was to keep Yuppies from moving into a farming area, smelling the odors of the animals, and suing to have their "clean air", at the expense of the farms. Also, to PLAN city growth in such a way as to keep infrastructure ahead of growth. You know, roads, power, water, sewer. That kind of thing.

Used to work well, but I haven't lived in Oregon since 1995, so I really have no idea how it's going there now. I hear it's pretty Draconian these days (yet another good reason for me to NOT live there.)
 
Where have all you people been the past five years(actually longer)??? Asleep at the switch? This is strictly the UN's MAB program(Man And Biosphere Program). If you want to know whats going to happen over the next five to ten years, read what they have in store for us. Here is one link. OR go to UN site and type in MAB under their search function. It's all spelled out that eventually, THE UN will tell us all where to live, what we drive, what we can eat, what we can drink and of course we will have to pay tribute to them (via taxes, license fee's, etc) to even be allowed to use any of our own resources. At one point, this website had a map of what the US will look like once it's been broken up into it's (I think six) Biosphere Reserves. It seems to have been removed.

Link: http://www.mabnet.org/home2.html

This is just one UN impostition on our lives. Are you aware that the UN now has taken over the specifications for 'vessels used to transport liquids and solids' (ie barrels)? I found this out when I purchased my Y2K inventory of barrels used to contain water and 'hazardous waste' (gas). On both containers, it said that these followed 'guidline xxyyzz of the UN directive xxxxxxx'. When I asked the guy who owned the business, he said that the USDOT turned over the specifications function to the UN around 1995 (it may have been a couple years earlier). And that ALL containers now had to adhere to these strict guidelines, or you could be fined, taken to court and then to jail. So, the UN has their fingers in all sorts of US 'pies'. We are being gobbled up, one bite at a time, so we won't notice the 'BIG PICTURE' of us being sold out to international concerns.

Of course, everybody I've told this to told me I was crazy and that the US Congress would never allow it. Hey, they are IN on this power shift. I wonder what they were promised in return? To be allowed to remain in the appearance of power??
 
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