Leland’s Growth Cluster Fuck Halted

State Republicans Smoke out their Malfeasance

And now some good news. No really, this is good news. Read on.

As I noted last week (Dec 21st post) Leland has been trying to tackle flood zones, and its effect on housing. I noted then, this could not possibly be the result of their sudden concern for flood zones, and it seems, I am correct.

In the time I wrote that post through today, I did some research. The North Carolina Republicans passed a bill to thwart Leland, and state property rustlers Democrats from stealing land, while protecting the land of current homeowners. Thank you North Carolina Republicans!

The bill that passed also delivered, finally, much needed aid to the hurricane victims in West North Carolina, that all the Democrats in this state did not support, and that Gov. Roy Cooper vetoed. For those who do not know, most of those areas were Republican voters. Yes, Democrats really hate half the citizens of this state. But still, Thank you again Republicans for your humanitarian action!

The bill prohibits local government from amending zoing regulations or the zoning map, as noted by WECT here.

Sluggo (Democrat) immediately engaged in fear mongering:

This year has shown us we need to make sure that that never, never happens again,” Carter said.

But limiting the ability to downzone, Carter says, would impact their ability to control the rapid growth the area is seeing.

“This is one of the few tools that we have to do that,” Carter said. “If you take that away, it’s one less thing, and it’s now us – at the local level – trying to explain to constituents that there’s nothing we can do about it and we didn’t get a say on it. So, that’s disturbing.”

Got that? It is not her fault that things flood now, it is the state law passed by Republicans who are thwarting them. So, now we may flood again! FEAR!

Wannabe actor, Bill McHugh (Democrat) chimed in to add to the misinformation fest:

“That’s why it’s so important to leave local control, locally. Let the local governments make the decisions that are best for their localities rather than trying to paint some broad stroke, one-size-fits-all across an entire state that runs from the beach to the mountains,” he said.

Memo to McHugh and Sluggo: the reason the state stepped in is because you greedy morons were out of control, accepting bribes from Developers to rezone property (see Lanvale and Malmo Loop developments), and then, were not listening to local residents.

Have I said thank you NC Republicans? I say it again.

Steven Webb (NC Home Builders Association) said it best:

Got that: In case you missed it, he said this:

But Steven Webb, the legislative affairs director of The North Carolina Home Builders Association, has called the downzoning provision a “huge victory for property rights.”

“In general, we do not support the (downzoning) practice because oftentimes, the local government is making an effort to extract concessions from the landowner that can severely harm housing affordability,” Webb said in an emailed statement Wednesday. “We believe it is only reasonable to ask a property owner for consent prior to downzoning and potentially devaluing their property. If we are going to address the housing affordability crisis, practices like this must be curtailed.”

So, just so you get what MaHugh and Carter are all madz about: they want to be able to force property takings by local government when people like the Leland Town Council want to take your land, by forcing concessions from you in order to change you land. This is government tyranny, and the Leland Council wants to be able to keep doing what they have been doing—building rapidly, and drowning the voters in debt, while at the same time, taking your property rights.

Nice bunch of folks we have on the council, no?

Sorry Sluggo, you lose.

Page 131 of Senate Bill 382 reads, “No amendment to zoning regulations or a zoning map that down-zones property shall be initiated, enacted, or enforced without the written consent of all property owners whose property is the subject of the down-zoning amendment.”

Reason Magazine explains:

The law defines downzoning as any decrease in the allowable density of development, any reduction in permitted uses, or any creation of a "nonconforming" use, lot, or structure.

In effect, if you have a right to do something or build something on your land right now—whether that's operate a gas station or build an apartment complex—S.B. 382 says you'll always be allowed to do that unless you give express written consent to the local government to take that right away from you.

It is too bad this law was NOT in place when that hideous outfit Evolve came swaggering into town and built coffin apartments (with its fake grass) near Waterford. Slight digression: have you heard there is yet another shooting in the apartments Leland built behind Walmart?! Yep, apartment housing = more crime more often than not.

But, this is a HUGE victory for people in NC. Property owners now have to consent to any change in zoning. You can understand now why Leland is so pissed off and throwing a tantrum. Why? because it takes money away from THEM through bribery of the developers while also protecting property rights.

Read the entire Reason article.

Happy New Year everyone. We ended on a high note.

Now let’s vote out these corrupt Democrats from the Leland Town council.