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Looks like JuCo scandal is getting deeper. The SEC does not play.
Also, looks like the Anniston Star is beating the old “we need rural zoning now” drum once again. From their editorial, I gather there is no threat to public health or safety. The idea that folks want to do something with their land that offends aesthetic sensibilities is a constant with them.
Walt, rural zoning is a step in the wrong direction. Ask any construction or development firm where the concrete plants, dirt pits, storage yards, and industry will need to relocate, because the land that was once cheap and undesirable is now at the fringe of development and in new zoning district. Or in the event that a grandfathered entity now wants to expand onsite, can’t do it. Rural zoning is just another way to restrict the free market, and inflate land values.
I live in Baldwin County, and currently the regs state that outbuildings can be only a certain percentage of the square footage of the main building. In essence if I wanted to build a larger house, I’d either have to demo my existing home and file for a building permit, add to the existing home, or subdivide my property, request either a rezoning or a variance, and then procede with a building permit. All this for the county mowing the ROW once every two months, and a county road overlay once every 10 years. What benefits perchance are they suggesting for requiring rural zoning?
I believe thats what I intended to say, rural zoning is wrong. There is no zoning where I live and I want it to stay that way. People move out of the city to get away from Ms Grundy and for cheap land. While my area is starting to fill up, I am happy to see a tar paper shack right at the turn off to the new swanky lakeside condos and the double wides on the road leading to its back entrance. The shack and double wides were there first and the condos were built knowing that fact.
The Anniston Star and its papers generally tout beautification of the countryside and home rule as reasons for rural zoning.
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