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Just when you think even the toadies at city hall couldn't go any lower, they give you even more evidence that they are in the back pockets of the developers. Good old Dickie Brahm, who we taxpayers pay literally hundreds of thousands of dollars to to ''represent the city'' as an outside counsel, also represents a large number of developers who do business in this town. He just came before Service Committee with a project that would embarass a slumlord. Surprise , surprise, he got what he wanted. Toadies Paker and Maxey gave approval to build fifteen duplexes (or thirty more residential units) in the little area tucked behind the post office. By the way, the land is presently zoned commercial, which means that we will lsoe more commercial space. The duplexes will have no green space and will literally be packed side by side.
What benefit is this to the city. Well, absolutely none. The thirty new residential units will add another classroom to our school system. It will also mean more traffic pouring out unto 256 near Seton Parish, the Post Office and the Soccer fields. The new units will not add any park space and will likely be an eyesore. Moreover, it will cause us to lose even more commerical property. No sane or logical explanation exists for why these two toadies would approve such a project except for one that we have all suspected for some time.
This new insanity will go before council on Tuesday along with several more plats that were shoved through service by Toady Parker and Toady Maxey will likely be approved by the six toadies. They will also vote once agin on the nine plats they voted on for the first time at the last council meeting. All of this while everyone, including the school board, is begging them to slow down so that are schools won't be ruined and a roads become parking lots. Get it through your heads folks, your city government only cares about you if you have the resources to hire them as a ''consultant'' or arrange some other windfall.
By Captain Hook
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Scum 2
Talking about the next election isn't enough folks. These ''gentlemen'' will have ''final platted '' every square inch of land in Pickerington by that time. Maxey knows he cannot be elected and it is doubtful that Brian ''Bigger and Better things'' Fox will run. Even that old gasbag Postage has got to realize that he cannot get relected unless only the developers are allowed to vote. Randy may run again but only because there is no end to his ego and his nearly psychotic delusion that he is well liked and respected. Most of them, however, are going to get all they an from allowing devlopers to run roughshod over the citizens of Pickerington and run off to new pastures (ie, Lancaster or Baltimore).
It is time to stop being polite to these people. Come to council meetings and ask them the tough questions like, ''Randy, how many motorcycles do you own with a local developer'' and ''Why does that developer hold title to your home.'' and ''Yes, Randy, we would like to take a look at your fiancial records'' since you are always offering this to us in your tirades at council. Lou, exactly how much money have you made in the past five years as a bonding agent for various developers who are doing business in this town on their projects in other locations? Ms. Bushman, is it true that you (or a company you had an interest in) held options on various lands that were later purchased by developers. The same questions should go to eveyone on council and to the city attorney. We can even ask Bob Mapes why we pay him a package of over hudnred thousand a year just so he can go and spend several hundred thousand on outside legal counsel.
Come to counil meetings and begin screaming. You might even think of carrying sign. We could also revive an old tradition and bring along a bucket of tar and some nice feathers. Better yet, it might be nice to bring down a letter to the Secreatry of State and the Attorney General requesting that they investigate these people. We could all sign the letter and send it forward.
By Captain Hook
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There?’ s none so blind as those
There?’ s none so blind as those who won?’t see.
Let?’s connect the equation. PATA?’s newsletters & website have given you the facts. Richard C. Brahm of Powell, OH gave $250.00 dollars of campaign contributions to Mr. Maxey. $250.00 dollars to Mr. Parker and another $500.00 to Mr. Wright. All of these gentlemen did not report these contributions in the pre-election forms so that the citizens of this community would be aware of this potential out of town influence. Another PATA newsletter gave you the debt that Pickerington taxpayers have absorbed in re-aligning Courtwright Road to ?“match-up?” this intersection. More funds were listed on this website by Mr. Harding, city debt shelled out of the eastern road addition and the light in this location.
We residents of Pickerington are paying for the sins of these issues. We are paying what the developers should pay for and all it cost these developers (and their attorneys) is pocket change. The elected ones?’ have sold us down the river.
The truth is they weren?’t ?“freely elected?”, they were purchased for a cost and it?’s us that are paying for it. They have no right serving out their term of office and continuing to make the kinds of decisions that damage us for the benefits of those who bought their way to office.
By 20 /20 vision now
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Consider this
Captain,
You failed to tell us who owns this property behind the Post Office that our friends on the Service Committee want to rezone. It wouldn't be a LLC with a funny name like flintstones or some other charactor from that show is it? It was rumored that the former Mayor Lee Gray bought that land just a few months ago.
For all you people that live in the City of Pickerington and don't think running for office is worth your time, you should consider just how a former mayor can go around buying real state all over town and these aren't cheat properties. So the word from Pickerington is to get rich run for office.
Everyone should consider what the three or four initiatives would have done to this situation if they were law now. They couldn't develop the land at less than 2 lots per acre. That means they would have had to really put some commerical mixed into with these duplexs or at least some green space. They weren't annexing so the incentive give away initiative wouldn't have come into play here expect if they are also giving this property free or reduced taps. If the initiative that is before the Ohio Supreme Court would have been in force now then they couldn't pass this rezoning as an emergency. It all could be referendumed.
I belive they know their time is runnig out. This is one last money grab at the tax payer's expense. We will need to pay for the children that attend school from these properties, pay for the light, pay for the road, pay for the sewer line, and probably not receive enough in taxes and user fees to break even. I expect them to totally ignore the voters and pass this as an emergency not allowing the voter's their rights to run a referendum on the zoning ordinance.
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