County "veto" of annexation

This is all about land use plans. The land use plan currently in place for Fayette County (and the cities) was set in place with input from all parties.
In unincorporated Fayette County the land use plan is structured to have an infrastructure in place that is keeping pace with the population growth.
The plan is derailed when a city, in order to increase its' tax base to feed the engine of government, annexes and invariably increases the density of the use of the property. The result is more homes, more people, more cars, more kids in the schools, than what has been planned.
Is this not precisely what most people in the county complain about now? The current law allows for the cities to annex and all the county can do is protest. The county protests, the annexation goes forward, the density increases, the traffic inceases, the schools get more crowded and everybody seems surprised and wants to blame the county for the "uncontrolled" growth.
I looked at the county commissions voting record as it relates to compliance with the county land use plan. It reflects a philosophy of strict compliance with the plan even when may be unpopular or politically expedient. By contrast, both PTC and Fayetteville have shown very little regard for the land use plan.
This bill would at least provide a mechanism for some checks and balances that, at least currently, do not exist in this county.

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Submitted by PTC Guy on Mon, 02/27/2006 - 9:31pm.

I am not fully converse on the law, but in all the states I have lived in it was always the city determined annexation, the county could appeal to the State to hault it for cause and by petition and appeal groups could appeal to the State to force the city to annex them.

Best system I know of. Since when should the county determine whatg is best for city?

And how do you think towns and such get created to begin with? By group appeal to the State to charter them, not to the county.


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county "veto" of annexation
Submitted by did not know on Mon, 02/27/2006 - 8:53pm.

I live in Tyrone and am for the county commish being able to wax the towns annexations. I have seen total disregard and disrespect for what people want by the Mayor,Town council and town manager. If someone doesn't stop them, Lord knows, people have tried, Tyrone will just keep creeping like a big cancer across the county with 1/2 acre lots. The county sued and lost, when Tyrone put in a sewer pipe big enough to serve NY. Now they have opened Pandora's box and we have developers here that leave a slime trail. I wish everyone well, but we are getting out of Dodge. My child is now failing in public schools, till this year they had a B average without even trying, the classes are so big and disruptive, the kids can't concentrate.... thank you...Smolas.... you are both responsible. I hope God gives you what the people can't!

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Submitted by PTC Guy on Mon, 02/27/2006 - 9:25pm.

You don't need the county to fix your problem. Get a new government.

Fix your own problems. You guys created it by electing them.

And whatever makes you think having the county control these things is going to stop growth and school crowding?

Who do you think controls the schools. Fayette County, not Tyrone.

And those county kids will still go you the schools your kids attend.

Apparantly not all of Tyrone feels as you do if they keep electing such people.

Also, have you noticed, the County Commission is not exactly at the top of the "good guys" list of many.


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Submitted by did not know on Wed, 03/01/2006 - 3:31am.

We just got two good people on the council for Tyrone, but two is not enough. What has happened to the schools in Tyrone was caused by past bad decisions or greed. Now it is like a runaway train with our children caught under it. I see no reason for my children to stay here and pay for the stupid decisions by sitting in overcrowed classrooms with stressed out teachers. The developers knew what they were going to cause, and moved their kids to Brooks. The dream of a good public education is over, for Tyrone schools anyway. If you look at the annexations of Tyrone, they follow 74, anything a developer wants, they have pretty much let them have. You have only to read the minutes of ...any... of the Tyrone meetings on their web site to see the same developers getting variances over and over. They might as well just hand them their land use map and tell them to fix it anyway they want and then give it back. The two new council members have a lot of 'leftovers' on their plate from the ones sitting next to them.

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