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I'm With You
Coyote,
I'm with you. From what I've seen and I've talked to the reps, looked at the plans and actually listened at the meetings, this will be good for the community. It meets every criteria we've set for the past several years for exactly the kind of commercial development we want. I guess some people would complain if they were hung with a new rope!
I don't think the property owners necessarily need to be making a lot of noise about this. If the Twn Trustees change the zoning to a more restrictive level then we'll all get to watch a Federal ''takings'' lawsuit and won't it be fun when we loose and a Federal judge raises our taxes to pay for it.
I still can't figure out why the flat-earthers and the luddites don't just offer the property owners more money than the developers. If you do that you can do anything you want with the land.
By Any Mouse
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I found one
I nominate Missing Bob to be the new webmaster of the PATA website. I will be waiting for that email from you in order to work out the transition into your new role.
Congratulations! You may want to keep the old proverb in mind that you should be careful what you wish for, because you just might get it.
By Coyote
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Not Bob Harding
Clearly we have the property owners of the 106 acre tract out near the North Campus going to extremes on what they are wanting and who they want to sell their properties to. The first extreme was to offer it to Dominion Homes knowing it would be turned down.
However instead of wanting to come in and build at the current zoning they asked for a high density development then when they had resistance they withdrew their application. The question should now be was the withdrawing of their application something that they saw a couple of years ahead of the Columbus Dispatch?
Now the same developer comes in with a big box plan here again not going along with the current Comprehensive Land Use Plan. He doesn't even consider the Transportation plan and they only propose roads for within their development. Then we have citizens thinking this will solve our growth problems and fix the schools. IT WON'T.
A point that Bob Harding always talked about was the land use plan. Why is the trustees willing to abandon their land use plan that they put together just a year or so ago?
What is happening is that the trustees are allowing the developers to run the show just like the residential developers used to run the show in the city of Pickerington. I think the ''wearewethepeople.com'' are correct in their assessment. Refugee and Pickerington Roads will look like Hamilton Road in a few years. Only this time it will be taking money and resources from the taxpayers to build roads and other infrastructure instead of new schools. In either case it will hurt the schools.
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More trash than in the pictures
Have to say my first impression of the 'weare' website is the pitiful attempt to portray any commercial development in Ptown as the equivalent of the mess they show at other older developments. I believe in the scientific world they call it 'no statistical relevance'. I'd even stretch it to 'no relevance at all'
Clearly the developers need to show us more specifics of what they are proposing to build and undermine the positioning by the opposition. Quality developments have been built in New Albany, Dublin and Hilliard; there is no reason not to have the same in Pickerington. But if the 'weare' sites win the minds of the mindless then rest assured the township trustees will not have the guts to vote yes.
We need commercial development, not more homes and kids to educate. Come on TLG! Show us a classy development and positive views. Don't let the crap on 'weare' take the front page!
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