By: Diane

Diane — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 02:49:47 +0000

There are an increasing # of us, residents of Idaho, who are aghast at the open prostitution of Idaho land by those “agricultural thinkers” in our governing agencies who stand to profit from that prostituiton of Idaho in the name of “fostering growth”.
The growth is coming, but the political accountability to the little land owners/ homeowners for protecting them is intellectually and in all prcticality, non existent. Developer’s pay little, if any, of the burden of infrastructure developement. Us little guys foot that bill.

Republican or Democrat, makes little difference. Those with money or status in the community have power. That’s what they keep pushing us to believe, and we , the rest of Idaho let them.
If these officials and developers are going to rape property owners on our quality of life they should, at least, pay for it; -Impact fees and providing for the costs of roads., schools, etc..
So far those who raise concerns have been seen as “a tempest in a teapot”. Will it take a foaming, whitewater torrent to get these big money officials to do something to control the growth?
The difference is the volume of people speaking up.

By: Tj

Tj — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 01:04:34 +0000

Oh dear, if only we could somehow summon the wherewithal to vote out our beloved Commissioners.

I’d think that would be the first baby steps toward progress in our fair city/county.

By: Todd

Todd — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 00:50:45 +0000

Sounds like what happened to Peavy-Derr. If the other Ada commishes and Boise council don’t pay attention they could be heading to the same fate. I think this falls election could be critical to the future direction of the area and we need to pay attention and hold the candidates feet to the fire.

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