Pickerington Area Taxpayers Alliance

So let?’s see..... we can have a moratorium on Strip Clubs, but we can?’t have a moratorium on Residential Construction. The less than newsworthy ?“This Weak in Developer Land?” quotes a Councilman (appointee) quoting a Trustee -- nice direct information source with bold headlines of Moritorium illegal. Didn?’t PATA post a United States Supreme Court Decision about moratoriums being supported by the highest court in the land from the Dispatch?

Guess the orphan child print doesn?’t pay attention to the parent!

Or is ?“Developer Land?” just got it?’s own set of rules?


By Wising up in a hurry

Get out of the sewer Business

Actually this might surprise some of our press people but Maxey is a liar. More than once has he told me things that were totally untrue and he knew they were untrue when he told me. In fact he was the one that made the contradictory statement to prove he lied in our previous conversation.

The fact is the township can control growth. They can?’t just stop the water and sewer taps because they don?’t own them, but the county does. Yet Maxey claimed, he was going to get in touch with Pat Harris at the county. He never did! Mr. Harris would be the one to determine if he could work out a plan with the county commissioners to control the rate of growth of the water and sewer taps. I know the County has invested large sums of money into the water and sewer projects and they would need some rate of return to stay solvent. The system we have right now is a highly competitive system where Canal Winchester, Fairfield County, and Pickerington are all fighting and competing for that same sewer and water markets so to speak. We need to establish these water and sewer districts and hold each other (CW, Fairfield, & Picktown) to their areas with a controlled rate of growth. I am thinking down around the 1.5% range.

There are other ways to control the growth through zoning and how we grant the zoning. If a builder comes in and want to develop 100 acres then he should agree to control his rate of development in exchange for the new zoning change. The township and the City could do this if they wanted.

The problem we have here in Pickerington is the legal advice they receive at our taxpayer?’s expense. We have an attorney that sometimes represents the City then the next time you see him he represent applicants that are doing business in front of the City Council. Where has Mr. Maxey got his advice? Probably from one of these attorneys that have special interests in seeing that this City develops houses as fast as they can.

So now the question is what is you next more Mr. Maxey? What and how do you propose to control residential growth? Are you trying to put Pickerington in the same situation as Lancaster? Lancaster is trying to raise revenues by repealing the income tax credit when you work in another city. Lancaster ran a study to determine the ?“cost of services?” for all of the residential building going on in their city. They have found that these new houses coming into their city are costing more in services than the City is receiving in taxes. To cover the short fall they must now raise taxes. At least the Lancaster City government is honest about it. They aren?’t proposing TIF?’s and annexation policies that raise money in the city?’s coffers only to cost the schools, and sewer and water users more money.

Please contact Mr. Maxey, Mr. Postage, Mr. Wright, Mr. Fox, Mr. Monebrake, Mr. Parker, and or Mayor Hughes about how they plan to control growth. Don?’t be surprise if you receive a blank stare in response.




By Ed Norten

Plan Ahead

In 1997 the Pickerington City Council planned to put their business park in the area of the current Canal Point. However that is in the Canal School District. Hoping that no one would notice that they weren?’t helping the tax base of the PLSD they continued their fraud on the residents of Pickerington along with a couple of the School Board members.

Our Pickerington City Council and the Mayor continue to tell us they are going to create an industrial park/ business park at U.S. 33. Yet they plan to waste money by proposing roads down the middle of expensive residential properties. They now are trying to build another road across residential properties to ?“create?” commercial property opportunities when just 4 years ago they destroyed the commercial value of the land directly across the street from his road behind the Kroger Store.

They have no cooperation agreements with anyone in the area to ever reach this much fantasized industrial park near U.S. 33. Our wonderful Mayor continues to refer to the Comprehensive Land Use Plan and ?“a Dynamic Document?”. A work in progress if you will. Would anyone out there allow a builder to take your money to build you a house with only a hand drawing and no blue prints? Would you allow this same builder to build your house with plans that were written in pencil and eraser marks all over it. That is exactly what is happening down at 100 Lockville Road and how they are planning to development of this City.

They have no plans in place and even if they did they would change them for any developer that would sit down with them and present a zoning application. This is at the very least irresponsible, if not criminal. They are destroying the future of our City and the future of our homes. Once they have provided the big developers with all the public money and services the developers will then abandon Pickerington and move on to the next bunch of suckers in the next City.


Isn?’t time that Pickerington and Violet Township sit down and do the common zoning? Isn?’t time that we sit down with Canal Winchester and Fairfield County utilities and agree to sewer and water districts? Isn?’t time we actually drew up plans for an industrial park and or a business park with actual plans on how we get there and have the agreements available to the public to review? Isn?’t time we elect people willing to serve their own residents instead of the developers?