8 responses to “Former mayor accuses city of improperly changing rezoning process”

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   Mike King

   February 23, 2021

   A perspective: The former Mayor has purported himself to be a traffic engineer, and epidemiologist, and currently a constitutional lawyer all in the previous twelve months. What else can be said?

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   1. 

      Andrew Krause

      February 26, 2021

      Are you by any chance the Mike King who along with the rest of the City Council and the City Attorney thought it would be absolutely kosher to pass an ordinance allowing taxpayer funds to be used to sue ordinary citizens who criticized the government, and only after getting epicly reamed by an overflow mob consisting of a unified front of Right Wing Trumpsters and Left Wing Card Carrying ACLU Liberals did you… I’m paraphrasing from memory here… ‘learn that that was a bad idea?’

      Because that would be hilariously ironical that you might criticize Steve Brown for deigning to know something about lawful rule-based governance. If you were that Mike King, I mean.

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   2. 

      Don Haddix

      March 17, 2021

      Mike King is part of the Council that claims merely making an the errof on the zoning map constitutes legal rezoning. Since when?

      Where was the zoning hearing for the billboard? Where was the zoning vote?

      They did attempt to suppress First Amendment rights. They also tried to urbanize Aberdeen. And they have rezoned industrial to residential and commercial.

      And don’t forget Great Wolf.

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      1. 

         Doug Tucker

         March 17, 2021

         I still don’t agree with you Mr. Haddix. I may be incorrect in my assessment, but I think I got the general gist correctly. First, I don’t understand Mr. King as having said making an error on the Zoning Map constitutes rezoning. If he did, I suppose he is correct if the error remains by default without taking any corrective action to correct the error or omission. I understand the City is trying to correct the zoning omission. Second, if the proposed billboard doesn’t fall within a rezoning request, there probably isn’t a need for a “zoning hearing,” much less a “zoning vote.” I understand the City rejected the “Billboard Permit Application.” Third, I see no signs of First Amendment rights suppression. I actually find the City Council conducts open meetings and the Council Members are readily accessible. Last, nothing tangible has transpired with urbanizing Aberdeen and the City Council rejected the Great Wolf Lodge proposal.

         I say this because while we as constituents may fear City Council’s openness to proposals. However, in my experience, the City Council remains in tune with us when final votes are counted. In other words, “no harm, no foul.”

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2. 

   CitizenAl

   February 23, 2021

   It is sad to see the beauty of PTC constantly sold out to developers. The foolishness of having a realtor as mayor is evident. I hope this letter gets a full and detailed response. But I’m not holding my breath.

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      Spyglass

      February 23, 2021

      Where has City owned been sold to developers under the current Mayor?

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      Hometown600

      February 23, 2021

      There is a reason why the national board of realtors bankrolled our current mayors political campaign. Maybe next time around we study up on the candidates a little better

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3. 

   Spyglass

   February 22, 2021

   Get the popcorn ready…

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