Hungry Bellies

• I can tell you this: the Cairo Messenger is not thinking about hungry bellies, it is thinking about influencing your county commissioners to pass Zoning Regulations on county land. They have one commissioner with virtually all his voters in the county, joining two city commissioners. Tell commissioner Elwin Childs how you feel about Zoning on County land. In 1995/96 we fought the Zoning battle. Now we must fight it again. There is only one way to end the grief over this issue: Referendum. The issue in 1995 was: we want growth, but developers won’t come because we don’t have land development regulations. Now RDC (RC) says:”Zoning Protects Farm Land”. Says developers are looking for cheap farm land with little or no Regulations, Which is it? It’s a lie is what it is. I cannot believe a yella dog Democrat news paper would print a lie. I thought The Cairo Messenger was straight up, didn’t you? See front page article Feb. 16, 2011.
• Now is not the time to be messing with Grady County farmland. Not at a time of food riots, commodity price fluxuation. Zoning regulations will interfere with farm planning, insecticide application and anything else you can think of. They start out gently, then turn the screws, just as happened with sub-division regulations.

·         History has shown that proponents of onerous and dangerous measures are more than willing to accept early reins on their proposals in order to get them “on the books.”  They then work successfully to sweep away these restrictions.   Do not allow them on the books.     

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