Pickerington Area Taxpayers Alliance

APFO

The city's APFO specifically does NOTHING for the schools.

I don't think they can. What they can do is slow down all these houses. Diley Road is enough to keep them busy for years.

By Pickerington Voter too

Spring Lake preannexation

If you scroll down the left side of the page, you will find that the condos proposed at spring lake were part of a pre annexation agreement the past administration shoved through. The zoning for this property, R-10, (10 units per acre) was granted upon acceptance of the annexation by council vote, prior to the law suit challenging this annexation. This zoning was granted without any public hearing, contemporanieously with the annexation, that is why the language in the public hearing notice is ''discussion'' because of course...unless the developer would agree, nothing can change, it is a done deal. A done deal courtesy of Parker and Wright......paste these in your browser this is the preannexation agreement page one

http://www.neighborhoodlink.com/public/clubextra.html?nclubid=68303919&nid=984795944

page two
http://www.neighborhoodlink.com/public/clubextra.html?nclubid=68303919&nid=658506037

page three
http://www.neighborhoodlink.com/public/clubextra.html?nclubid=68303919&nid=963669187

The pre annexation agreement is a binding contract to the city, courtesy of the old adminstration....and this land is being developed by none other than Daryl Berry.

Need to move forward

Here again if you want to blame someone for the houses along Diley send a thank you note to Parker, Wright, and Sabatino (He was on P & Z during the approval process)

Hopefully the design standards, the tap fee increases and impact fees will add between $10K to $15K to each of these new homes. Faced with the same model in Pickerington versus another model costing $15K less where would you buy?

Then there is the Homewood sub-division of the Reserve at Pickerington Ponds. I am afraid that the current council majority has been so slow with there involvement with so many law suits that they won't have enough sewer capacity for this sub-division to be completed.

Then if the schools would work with the city and the township they will have a say in what and when future platting takes place. Granted the properties already platted will not be affected by an APFO but anything in the future would be.

I do not think anyone at the school administration has even considered the future and it will be here sooner than they think.



By Council Junkie

Fifth vote needed.

For those of you that now want to complain that the city council is not stopping the building along Diley Road and in the Spring Creek sub-division then you apparently do not know why and how we all got into this mess.

These measures were all passed as emergency basically to prevent the citizens to question, challenge or run a referendum on the council decisions back in 2001 and 2002.

I should remind everyone that Mr. O'Brien did sponsor a charter amendment this past summer to prohibit passing any zoning or annexation measure as an emergency and it never got on the ballot because it needed FIVE VOTES. This amendment was very similar to the initiative that Mr. Hackworth had circulated and who had taken the issue to the Ohio Supreme Court to try to get that measure on the ballot in 2002.

Clearly Sabatino, Wright, and Parker still do not see the problem with using emergency to pass zoning and annexation law thus bypassing the citizens and their right to run referendums.

I can assure everyone that if Mr. O'Brien gets re-elected and he gets his FIFTH vote on council that amendment will be on the 2006 ballot.