Pickerington Area Taxpayers Alliance

I hear that the presentation of the donation from the condo developer turned into a bit of a ''praise mayor Postage'' session. He was apparently 'instrumental' in securing the donation. Interesting it's presented that way.

Somewhere I read that the site where these condos will be built was originally approved as a golf course, senior center, offices, and a few condos. Now we have hundreds of apartments and condos...no doubt recorded as ''commercial'' development for purposes of city records. I believe that the folks involved in that included some current city administration, council,and some former city officials who have since relocated to federal custody.

Mosr recently I read that the condo company projected that their 250 unit development will yield only 40 kids. I'm sure that's true of their developements in some communities, but it's not going to be true in Pickerington. This community is known for it's schools.

I'm not being critical of the company, the are in business to make money. They have actually been more generous than most in giving a donation...they don't owe us any ''preservation of our schools''...they bought the land, and they followed the zoning rules that our officials set up, and they are in business to make money. The donation was an unusual gesture, our school are our problem, which we would normally address through the actions of our elected officials.

That's where things break down here. Their is no balance to the developers profit motive in this town. There's nobody to step up and say that their estimate is silly, nobody to say that we already have too many homes in the pipeline, nobody to question the debt of the sewer plant they need to keep building...

They seem distracted by the need to attend school board meetings and accept the acolades of those developers, who must be surprised and thrilled at the amount of support they receive in this community.

By reader

They always say that

The .1 or .2 children per unit is standard spin by the developers when talking about the number of childen per condo. When the units are three bedrooms then they get closer to 1 child per unit. Example: is Columbia Station which has three bedroom units. They have about one child per unit.

Do not under estimate the affect this crap will have on the voters. Some are not paying attention except what they read on the headlines and these school board clowns like Wes and Lori will use anything they can to keep Lou in office. If you folks think this election is won think again. They are using city hall and every tool they can to win at least one seat on the Pickerington City Council or retain the Mayor. I would ask that you all talk to every person you know that votes in the city and let them know how important it is for them to vote and to vote for the right people.

By Mike Springs

I agree

Have you seen the most recent publication of the ''mis'' communicator? Got it in the mail yesterday. Another spin on things and free publicity for lying Lou.



By David

Something Fishy

The second paragraph in the Malarky from the Mayor article is suspect. Take a good hard look at it. A portion of it has completely different letter spacing (kerning) and what appears to be a slightly smaller font. Whatever it was, it was a very last minute add in. What would make it so important? It was so last minute, it appears to not have even been proofed, as indicated by the differences mentioned above, as well as the missing apostrophe. I don't know about you, but this stamps it as suspect. There was plenty of room on this page to set it correctly, without squishing it in.

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