Pickerington Area Taxpayers Alliance

From information presented in the City of Pickerington ''Wastewater Financial Projections'' it seems that Pickerington will need to promote/build at least 150 houses in the area where the tap fees come to Pickerington, or raise the user fees to a rate necessary to pay the current loans and additional obligation of $10,900,000 loan for building the expanded sewer plant.

$72,666 Tap-in Fees/Legal Chaos


Build 150 houses to cover $10,900,000? I'm afraid I don't understand...

On another note: [Fair-weather fans [builders]...

Wellington Park:

Virginia Homes plans hundreds of homes via a city of Pickerington annexation agreement except the land was zoned in Violet Township (V.T.) Yep, they screwed the whole area! Virginia convinced Bill Yapel (V.T.) and Kerry Hogan (Fairfield Co.) that 334 homes was a great thing for our community and the area (huh?). V.T. bought it and pressured a near by civic associations to submit. So now we're looking at hundreds of homes with no infrastructure improvements whatsoever. Oh yeah, Virginia did offer to give the schools a measly $150/house. Give me a break - that won't even cover the cost to buss 'em. But V.T. paraded this contribution as some sort of victory. In the end, however, the development slipped through Yapels fingers (even after he convinced the civic association to swallow higher density [2.7 homes/acre I think] so as to not encourage a Virginia annexation to the city) and it backfired from because greedy Virginia wanted the annexations benifits. Yapel screwed the entire area by his wishful thinking. But wait...

Picktown now has a moratorium and Virginia Homes wants out! They petition the courts to exclude them from the annexation that includes Spring Creek and some land north of Refugee and let them back in V.T. Oops again. County commissioners nix the annexation deal. All is well for Virginia, right? Wrong. City appeals and the courts say city gets the land. Virginia spends money on attorneys, city spends money on attorneys, township spends money on attorneys. Who's getting rich here? ATTORNEYS !!!

Meanwhile we're stuck with hundreds of homes and no improvement whatsoever to roads and other infrastructure. What does that really mean, you may ask.

GRIDLOCK !!! DETERIORATION of your QUALITY of LIFE!!!

What a mess Joyce Bushman, Lee Gray, Lou Postage, V.T. and the BIA has caused. Well at least they're not thinking about naming a street after Joyce Bushman!

It's going to take years for the dust to settle and by then we will still have zero infrastructure improvements! Traffic Chaos... Thanks Joycee! You're credentials prove how dumb college credentials really are...

Can you say FIASCO!!!

150 houses/year

Correction/addition:
There will have to be 150 houses/year for twenty years to pay off the yearly debt which in 2005 will jump to $1,442,540.36 if the loan from EPA is granted. There will also be user fees added to the tap fees to pay that debt. Just ask Pickerington for the Wastewater Financial Projections for further clarification.

$14,000,000

The actual debt for the sewer plant expansion will be $14,000,000 - $11,000,000 for the actual sewer plant expansion and $3,000,000 for the purchase of Hickory Lakes. I hope everyone understands that these two issues are tied together, and you can't get one without the other. Do you really believe Pickerington can afford this debt? There were many people at the OEPA public hearing on November 5, all expressing displeasure at the sewer plant expansion. In fact, Rita Ricketts had something interesting to add...if Joyce Bushman has already signed the application for the permit to install (PTI) the sewer plant expansion, she did so illegally. The legislation authorizing her to do so was passed November 4, not by emergency, so it doesn't go into effect for 30 days, or December 4. Perhaps someone has seen the paperwork to verify Joyce Bushman committed this illegal act?