Your County Commission @ Work!
I was reading in last weeks Fannin Sentinel (Note the News Observer never mentioned anything) about the past commission meeting where an ex-commissioner was allowed a variance request on his subdivision. In the article the ex-commissioner was quoted as saying that the county needed to “lighten up on some regulations.” This statement completely shows the ignorance of this ex-commissioner because as one could read a little further down in the article the regulations in question are in fact not county regulations but rather state regulations. Particularly they are regulations of the Environmental Protection Division. Now I have a couple of questions regarding this. First why is it that an ex- commissioner was allowed such a broad variance to develop and build in a subdivision without water and without septic when others are not allowed to do so? And secondly why are our county leaders willingly (and knowingly according to the article) breaking state regulations which could potentially lead to the land development authority being stripped away from our local officials and placed in the hands of some office in Atlanta?
Last edited by Amos and Andy : 12-05-2007 at 07:34 AM.
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