(as reported in the 1-12-03 Dispatch)
http://www.dispatch.com/news-story.php?story=dispatch/news/news03/jan03/1582800.html
?“?….left the Berwick neighborhood in Columbus for Violet Township in 2001, seeking better schools and a bigger house. They found a four-bedroom stucco in Ashley Creek, a children-filled subdivision near parks and woods.
''I knew traffic would be an issue,'' he added. ''But it wasn't enough to discourage me from moving there.''
.... is confident that his patch of Fairfield County will preserve its rural character even as development continues.
Others aren't so sure. Debate over growth is reverberating through Pickerington City Hall. Voters there overwhelmingly approved three anti-growth issues in November. Mayor Randall Hughes and a council member quit in response, and now some residents are contemplating a recall of other pro-development council members.?”
An alternative land use
I?’ve included this information that a longtime area resident wanted to make available to all of us.
?…from Ralph Grossi, President of American Farmland Trust.
Every day we lose more than 3,000 acres of productive farmland to sprawling development. Gone forever! We're counting on your renewed support to help save the land that sustains us. You have already helped generate heightened public commitment to protecting farmland, and legislation you helped pass in 2002 will protect over 1 million acres of farmland. But, we are still in a race against time. During a recent 10-year period, California and Texas each lost nearly a million acres.....Pennsylvania lost almost a half million acres....New York lost over a quarter million acres. Sprawl is gobbling up farmland at alarming rates. Between 1970 and 1990, for example, the Chicago metropolitan area population grew by only 4%, but land use increased by a staggering 46%! In 2002, you helped us shape the debate in Congress over farmland protection, securing critical legislation that brought about a one billion dollar commitment to preserving farmland. In 2002, you helped educate the public, resulting in broad support for state and local bond issues aimed at preserving farmland in California, Massachusetts, New York and Texas
So how does Mr. Grossi?’s words stand in view with the BIA?’s intent to make our area a ?“test?” of the Builder Industry Associations to overturn citizen?’s concerns for zoning?
I mention portions of Grossi's letter to let you know what's happening at grass-roots level.
Do homebuilders like Homewood and Fannin have no regard for preserving green spaces? (Please don?’t insult my intelligence by trying to tell me that your PR 4 designation protects green space, it simply allows these and other homebuilders to build more homes on lands when there are non-building sections of sections of the parcel and provide for yet another mosquito infested retention area.)
If you need more detailed information on land use and farmland preservation as pertains to Central Ohio and Violet township, you may want to contact AFT as they have a advisor for the state. Contact them at this address:
American Farmland Trust
1200 18th Street.,NW, Suite 800
Washington, D.C. 20036
http://www.dispatch.com/news-story.php?story=dispatch/news/news03/jan03/1582800.html
?“?….left the Berwick neighborhood in Columbus for Violet Township in 2001, seeking better schools and a bigger house. They found a four-bedroom stucco in Ashley Creek, a children-filled subdivision near parks and woods.
''I knew traffic would be an issue,'' he added. ''But it wasn't enough to discourage me from moving there.''
.... is confident that his patch of Fairfield County will preserve its rural character even as development continues.
Others aren't so sure. Debate over growth is reverberating through Pickerington City Hall. Voters there overwhelmingly approved three anti-growth issues in November. Mayor Randall Hughes and a council member quit in response, and now some residents are contemplating a recall of other pro-development council members.?”
An alternative land use
I?’ve included this information that a longtime area resident wanted to make available to all of us.
?…from Ralph Grossi, President of American Farmland Trust.
Every day we lose more than 3,000 acres of productive farmland to sprawling development. Gone forever! We're counting on your renewed support to help save the land that sustains us. You have already helped generate heightened public commitment to protecting farmland, and legislation you helped pass in 2002 will protect over 1 million acres of farmland. But, we are still in a race against time. During a recent 10-year period, California and Texas each lost nearly a million acres.....Pennsylvania lost almost a half million acres....New York lost over a quarter million acres. Sprawl is gobbling up farmland at alarming rates. Between 1970 and 1990, for example, the Chicago metropolitan area population grew by only 4%, but land use increased by a staggering 46%! In 2002, you helped us shape the debate in Congress over farmland protection, securing critical legislation that brought about a one billion dollar commitment to preserving farmland. In 2002, you helped educate the public, resulting in broad support for state and local bond issues aimed at preserving farmland in California, Massachusetts, New York and Texas
So how does Mr. Grossi?’s words stand in view with the BIA?’s intent to make our area a ?“test?” of the Builder Industry Associations to overturn citizen?’s concerns for zoning?
I mention portions of Grossi's letter to let you know what's happening at grass-roots level.
Do homebuilders like Homewood and Fannin have no regard for preserving green spaces? (Please don?’t insult my intelligence by trying to tell me that your PR 4 designation protects green space, it simply allows these and other homebuilders to build more homes on lands when there are non-building sections of sections of the parcel and provide for yet another mosquito infested retention area.)
If you need more detailed information on land use and farmland preservation as pertains to Central Ohio and Violet township, you may want to contact AFT as they have a advisor for the state. Contact them at this address:
American Farmland Trust
1200 18th Street.,NW, Suite 800
Washington, D.C. 20036
