I once attended a session on parenting. The speaker described how he gains cooperation from problem children. He specifically outlined an example of his daughter, who insisted on expressing her anger by slamming her bedroom door when they argued. After years of asking, begging and threatening her, he decided to act. He removed the door....instead of choosing to slam the door or not, now she could choose to cooperate, or do without a door on her room. He replaced the door two weeks later and she never slammed it in anger again. He changed her choices!
Do the same to council! Right now, they can choose to either support or not support the moratorium, and the other actions that need to be taken to control growth in this community. I hope it's obvious to all of you now that they are working to justify not supporting it. When they believe that they've put on an adequate public showing, they will kill it.
CHANGE THEIR CHOICES! Begin to circulate a more restrictive moratorium that either focuses on, or includes sewer taps (along with building permits...see Ted Hackworth's prior posting) Make it two years...maybe more. Make them choose between the current version, and a much more restrictive version that voters might force on them in November. ( by then, the May school levy will have failed, and the school board will be pointing fingers and talking about split sessions) Even a council that seems only to listen to builders would have to see how likely voters would be to approve something like that.
Council has proven themselves pragmatic. When confronted with a more restrictive second initiative on emergency legislation, they ''untabled'' the ''flawed'' language from the first initiative and passed it. CHANGE THEIR CHOICES AGAIN...
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Do the same to council! Right now, they can choose to either support or not support the moratorium, and the other actions that need to be taken to control growth in this community. I hope it's obvious to all of you now that they are working to justify not supporting it. When they believe that they've put on an adequate public showing, they will kill it.
CHANGE THEIR CHOICES! Begin to circulate a more restrictive moratorium that either focuses on, or includes sewer taps (along with building permits...see Ted Hackworth's prior posting) Make it two years...maybe more. Make them choose between the current version, and a much more restrictive version that voters might force on them in November. ( by then, the May school levy will have failed, and the school board will be pointing fingers and talking about split sessions) Even a council that seems only to listen to builders would have to see how likely voters would be to approve something like that.
Council has proven themselves pragmatic. When confronted with a more restrictive second initiative on emergency legislation, they ''untabled'' the ''flawed'' language from the first initiative and passed it. CHANGE THEIR CHOICES AGAIN...
By now also anonymous
