OK...I enjoy reading your comments and I agree with most of what you highlight. However, call me and optimist but, we the citizens must somehow get unified to protect our settled neighborhoods and the growing communities around us by insisting that the infrastructure, the road systems, untilities and protective community services are in place to check and curb the growing sprawl that is taking over Brunswick County by properly with accurate perspective hold the real estate investors accountable for this balance. How do we do this?
I believe that Leland is either going to go the way it has been going, OR the voters are going to have to elect people who understand that growth cannot be simply headlong without a thought. We need people to run on this issue and attack (politically/rhetorically) the current town council. Cutting off the kickback (bribe) system to developers would help calm all this down a little. Actually working with the DOT would also help ensure a more reasonable growth plan, and finally, not building coffin apartments would really help all this.
I wish I could write better news stories. BUT, Leland is on the cusp of grand failure. I will try to run something on the present candidates and see if we have anyone worth a damn to vote for, not merely against.
I just attended (this past Saturday) Candidate School orchestrated by the County GOP Chair Mike Toohey with the purpose of assisting candidates on how to affectively run a campaign. Although I am not planning to run for office, I do want to understand the process. I met two people that seem to me to want to represent their constituents and I plan to promote one who is officially running for Leland Town Council, Frank Pendleton. He stepped up to make a difference. Hopefully he will be able to. The other person who approached me after the class was the Mayor Pro Temp of Belville along with one of his councilmen. He was interested in following up on a comment I contributed about the need to engage the neighborhood community that each of us lives in. They both were interested in attending our North Brunswick Republican Club. If you are not aware of the North Brunswick Republican Club, we meet the 3rd Tuesday of every month at Brunswick Beer and Cider Brewery. Doors open at 6:30 and the meeting begins at 7:00. We will not be having an August meeting but will resume our meeting schedule in September. We are a club that is now promoting activism at both the local and state levels. We would welcome you if you are not already attending?
Hi there, and thank you for this thoughtful post. I stay away from all the meetings of any party for reasons of distance especially for the people involved. I do not want whatever i say to be attached to the noble work of others, if that makes sense. Frank and the other guy—Hyer—have my vote.
What are the odds the GA will give us some relief on the down zoning law? I understand why the law was written but seems to me public safety is a greater concern. Development is an evolving issue and idealy our laws should evolve as well. McHugh and Carter are on the right side of this, although too little, too late to save their seats. Re-elect no one.
i cannot say they are on the right side of anything, because, their answer is more control over the citizenry, and their ideas are stupid—remember the whole electric fire engine debacle? McHugh and Carter. Firetrucks can’t run in floods. They are incompetent fools all the way around. BUT, I agree, re-elect no one.
The libertarian question is a big one—they who supported globalism, and considered human beings as mere consumers. My ANCIENT FAITH considers this a great sin—we are human who have souls. IF you are interested in such a take, read William Ropke’s book Human Economy. He is no left winger, and moderately free makret, but also very much a man of the Ancient Faith.
McHugh and all the current seated Leland council members are short sided and are only looking for the next big thing to put their name on a building or road sign. The fact that many commercial properties in Leland still remain vacant and homes are sitting on the market for 60 days should have been the writing on the wall for Leland a yr ago. Roads are being more conjested and council members have been reaping the dividends from tax payers.
OK...I enjoy reading your comments and I agree with most of what you highlight. However, call me and optimist but, we the citizens must somehow get unified to protect our settled neighborhoods and the growing communities around us by insisting that the infrastructure, the road systems, untilities and protective community services are in place to check and curb the growing sprawl that is taking over Brunswick County by properly with accurate perspective hold the real estate investors accountable for this balance. How do we do this?
I believe that Leland is either going to go the way it has been going, OR the voters are going to have to elect people who understand that growth cannot be simply headlong without a thought. We need people to run on this issue and attack (politically/rhetorically) the current town council. Cutting off the kickback (bribe) system to developers would help calm all this down a little. Actually working with the DOT would also help ensure a more reasonable growth plan, and finally, not building coffin apartments would really help all this.
I wish I could write better news stories. BUT, Leland is on the cusp of grand failure. I will try to run something on the present candidates and see if we have anyone worth a damn to vote for, not merely against.
I appreciate your response!🙂
I just attended (this past Saturday) Candidate School orchestrated by the County GOP Chair Mike Toohey with the purpose of assisting candidates on how to affectively run a campaign. Although I am not planning to run for office, I do want to understand the process. I met two people that seem to me to want to represent their constituents and I plan to promote one who is officially running for Leland Town Council, Frank Pendleton. He stepped up to make a difference. Hopefully he will be able to. The other person who approached me after the class was the Mayor Pro Temp of Belville along with one of his councilmen. He was interested in following up on a comment I contributed about the need to engage the neighborhood community that each of us lives in. They both were interested in attending our North Brunswick Republican Club. If you are not aware of the North Brunswick Republican Club, we meet the 3rd Tuesday of every month at Brunswick Beer and Cider Brewery. Doors open at 6:30 and the meeting begins at 7:00. We will not be having an August meeting but will resume our meeting schedule in September. We are a club that is now promoting activism at both the local and state levels. We would welcome you if you are not already attending?
Hi there, and thank you for this thoughtful post. I stay away from all the meetings of any party for reasons of distance especially for the people involved. I do not want whatever i say to be attached to the noble work of others, if that makes sense. Frank and the other guy—Hyer—have my vote.
What are the odds the GA will give us some relief on the down zoning law? I understand why the law was written but seems to me public safety is a greater concern. Development is an evolving issue and idealy our laws should evolve as well. McHugh and Carter are on the right side of this, although too little, too late to save their seats. Re-elect no one.
i cannot say they are on the right side of anything, because, their answer is more control over the citizenry, and their ideas are stupid—remember the whole electric fire engine debacle? McHugh and Carter. Firetrucks can’t run in floods. They are incompetent fools all the way around. BUT, I agree, re-elect no one.
I am on the side of not developing on flood plains. Guess I am not as libertarian as I thought. I would not buy a house on a flood plain.
The libertarian question is a big one—they who supported globalism, and considered human beings as mere consumers. My ANCIENT FAITH considers this a great sin—we are human who have souls. IF you are interested in such a take, read William Ropke’s book Human Economy. He is no left winger, and moderately free makret, but also very much a man of the Ancient Faith.
McHugh and all the current seated Leland council members are short sided and are only looking for the next big thing to put their name on a building or road sign. The fact that many commercial properties in Leland still remain vacant and homes are sitting on the market for 60 days should have been the writing on the wall for Leland a yr ago. Roads are being more conjested and council members have been reaping the dividends from tax payers.