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ways, are strung out along rural roads.
They don’t want growth. They want the area to stay rural and open, clean and unpolluted, uncluttered and beautiful.
IT’S A plea fraught with political and legal problems, to be sure. But the original question remains: In planning for growth, just who are the Supervisors, planning commissioners and zoning board members really representing? Certainly not the people whose interests are supposed to be represented by these public officials, both the appointed ones as well as the elected ones.
Otherwise, why have representative government at all? If people are being elected to office or named to public positions who have no interest in what the public desires once they achieve office, then what’s the point of having elections, public hearings, community meetings, “input” sessions—as some of the planners insist on saying?
Maybe if this basic question could be answered, a lot of planning grief could be avoided. □
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