So you have a house? But you have no pot to p*ss in!

Amos and Andy · #1 (**permalink**) 12-04-2007, 09:23 AM

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?

Amos and Andy · #2 (**permalink**) 12-20-2007, 02:57 PM

Personally if I were a developer I would run over to Land Development and the Commissioners Office before the first of the year (the variance rules change then) and demand that I get the same "special" treatment regarding the approval of my subdivision. If one guy can circumvent the rules then why can't everyone else...right?

Amos and Andy · #3 (**permalink**) 12-28-2007, 08:34 AM

I was thinking (scary thought I know). If the county has rules and regulations regarding land development and in conjunction the Environmental Protection Division has regulations as well, then why are our commissioners handing out variances, that violate these regulations, as if they were a dime a dozen. If you have regulations then don't issue a variance that undermines those regulations. Wouldn't it be smarter to just change the regulations and be done with it. Maybe I'm wrong on this. But I'm afraid the way our commission board is violating their regulations and EPD's regulations that the county is at some point gonna be sued for so much and the state will get involved and we'll all have to begin to apply for building permits in Atlanta. Oh well, good-ol-boy system at its best.

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