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More from OjaiFebruary 14, 2008
Nimby's will be Nimby's
This here diatribe is coming to you from Amherst, Virginia. Man O' Man its mighty cold here too! This morning I went out to our rental car parked in my sons driveway to pick up my wife's other suitcase and found the water in the bottle I had left in the car had frozen solid.
However as interesting as all that may be the real reason I am writing from Amherst is because when I was perusing the local newspaper, (The News & Advance) I came upon an article that made me think that for a moment I hadn't really left Ventura California. This article was entitled "Planners turn down town home proposal". It seems some developer placed a project before the planning commission dubbed "The Commons at Fort Avenue". He wanted to put up six two bedroom homes on about ½ acre of land. The surrounding area already was covered with single-family homes, and commercial uses such as Pizza Hut, and the La Tienda International Market. The cities planning staff had recommended approval of the proposal.
Then the Virginia Nimby's came a calling, close to (20) twenty neighboring property owners showed up to voice their opposition. Their concerns centered mostly on the "added traffic". The final vote was 3-2 for rejection. So as you can see no matter how far you travel in this enormous country of ours, Nimby's will be Nimby's and Banana's will be Banana's.
Rellis Smith
rellis39@sbcglobal.net
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