Pickerington Area Taxpayers Alliance

Not so pleased

Dear Pleased with Council,

I sat in on that meeting last night as well and I didn?’t hear the same ?“Growth Management Plans?” you seemed to be so pleased with.

What they will do from a community stand point is to load us all up on debt and then we have no other choice but to approve more houses just to pay off this debt.

The second point is how do you know what they approved? The ?“ORIGINAL?” ordinance (2003-17) submitted by David Shaver was NOT approved. Councilman Craig Maxey offered an amendment by substitution after ordinance 2003-17 DID NOT PASS last night. They basically left the future of any growth control over to the BIA. The BIA must sign off on this and we are now at their mercy.

Clearly if you listened to the councilmen Fox, Maxey, Parker, and in previous meetings Bill Wright along with new comer Mike Sabatino. None of these five councilmen see any problems with growth. Clearly they are making up excuses not to control growth. The ordinance that they passed last night will not control growth and without a true limit on the number of New Homes each year we are stuck with the ever increasing problem of funding the school operating expenses. None of what they did last night addresses our current problem. If we do adopt a growth management plan then it will affect the funding of the Community Authority. Clearly the BIA wants to prevent this city from limiting the number of new houses and that is also in their proposal. Once this ordinance is adopted they can approve what ever housing density they want no matter what the voters said last November with issue 17. Clearly Craig Maxey and others have a vehicle to NEVER control residential growth.

I hope the WEB master posts a copy of that last minute ordinance passed last night

While the City Council gets headlines this morning about how the council addressed the growth issue we truly sit here now waiting on the BIA to response to tell us all what they will do or not do. If the BIA choices not to enter into a Community Authority at 10 mils then all of this frivolous debate will be all wasted efforts.

I for one will continue with my moratorium and growth management plan initiative. However it will only be successful if we have people on the Pickerington City Council willing to listen to the citizens of Pickerington rather than making deals at the last minute or in the back room with the BIA. I also believe that the only way we will ever settle the differences with the township resident and the trustees is to also find a new city council.

We currently have five on council that refuse to listen. Before you can solve any problem you must be able to see the problem. If your sphere of influence is only the BIA and their attorneys then you develop tunnel vision and the people you are charged to serve become outsiders. The city voters are now outsiders in this debate.

Answers??

I'm confused as to how council could pass an amendment when the original growth plan itself failed??? That doesn't make sense to me. I also haven't a clue what is stated in that amendment. He simply heard bits and pieces....I'd love to see a copy of it. Where can I get a copy? And.... I will tell you one other thing. When it passed, Joyce Bushman SMILED!!! That alone makes me extremely suspect that we citizens just got rooked. No... I'm glad that I've already signed the recall petitions. My only regret is that we cannot circulate one to recall our city manager!

By Confused

Map Please


What exactly is outside the Community Authority & still in the City of Pickerington that isn't an existing home?

Has the area that is included in the Authority been announced?

By Curious

Too little, Two Weeks Late

I'll be happy to tell my boy that you're ''Pleased with Council''. He's a great kid, terrific grades & loves sports - guess I'll go over the growing pains & how this is for the greater good....NOT. He'd like to stay in Pickerington for his Senior year, but now we're looking.

What this is - is too little & two weeks late. Everyone of those pontificating self rightous jerks needs to be removed now.

If I hear Postage's ''It's for the Kids'' speech one more time I'm going to puke on my shoes.

They've had since last October to get their acts together & what do they do? Wait until it's too late - as usual. But Parker got the sound byte - we can pass this before the levy - we will make sure we don't impact the levy.

I'd like to talk with Mr. Parker privately, so he can understand the impact his lack of action had.

I also don't like how he has to talk about Mr. Rookstool's taxes. Let's talk about Parker's taxes - doesn't he live in an apartment that he rents? Where's his ownership in our fair city?

The only other question I have is when can Sabitino be recalled? I didn't think there were any bigger jerks than Bill Wright, but I can admit when I'm wrong. What a windbag!

By Senior's Parent