Blog Posts - March 2010

Golden Beach "Last Minute" Re-Zoning----And the Public "Once Again" Left in the Dark

By Rich Johnson, on Mar 15, 2010

 

You would had thought the County Commissioners would had learned from the Secret Hillville Re-Zone and how the Public would not stand for it.  Well the County Commissioners did it again, and now to the good folks of Golden Beach with another sneaky Re-Zoning.  Of course the Public were kept in the dark once again.  Here is a letter from Commissioner Larry Jarboe who is the Only One voting against such sneaking Re-Zoning:

 

20 Kilowatt Wind Turbine Soon to be Erected in Saint Mary's (Post #1 & #2 & #3 & #4) "Painting Time"

By Rich Johnson, on Mar 11, 2010

This was the first of 2 Concrete Pours for the 100 foot tower.  We will wait 4 weeks after the last concrete pour before the tower is raised.  Before we raise the tower, we will run conduit up the tower for getting 3 phase power that will be generated by the turbine.  We will also install the 15 foot blades and tail.  We hope to offset our power consumption and analysis indicates we have a 10 MPH average wind speed which will equate to 19,727 KW Hours generated per year.  That is 60% of my consumption.  If the wind average goes to 12 MPH on the average, this wi

Do you believe

By Dan Morris, on Mar 7, 2010

Do you believe the the commissioners are going to spend $10,000,000 less in the upcoming  budget?  Why didn't they spend $10,000,000 less in last years budget?  If the other four commissioners had listened to Larry Jarboe and adopted constant yield it would have saved the tax payers $6,000,000.  Do you think if it were not an election year, the other four commissioners would make a press release reporting they were not going to spend as much this year?

Mill Cove "High Density" Housing Planned and the Effect it Will do to the Community

By Rich Johnson, on Mar 2, 2010

Tonight I attended the Public Forum for the Mill Cove Community and how some developers want to force through “High Density” housing, right in the Critical Area.  All the Town Hall Alliance guys support your issue.  It is a “Quality of Life” issue and how this development will change the Character of your community.  This is no different than the Hillville area re-zoning of 620 acres to Industrial without the neighbors being told about it.  Tonight the Developer was there in force along with a Lawyer, and other Builders and trade folks.  I agree with them that these