Workforce Housing - Bob Ward: “YOU HAVE YOUR FUTURES! YOU HAVE YOUR AGENDA 21s!!!” - Granite Grok

Workforce Housing – Bob Ward: “YOU HAVE YOUR FUTURES! YOU HAVE YOUR AGENDA 21s!!!”

That would be Bob Ward, the SanborntonTown Planner screaming those words at NH State Rep Jane Cormier when the Planning Board held an “information session” on May 1st on six amendments that wound themselves making more of the town open for workforce housing.  It was obvious that actually educating folks as to what was really below the surface Granite State Future / Sustainable Communities Initiative was really getting under his (and the other “urbanizers of NH” skin; the jig is up as the word is getting out.  As I said in the post, it was clear that there was an Agenda (that was just for you, Bob) that the board wanted these to pass and seemed to be rather annoyed that the townfolk assembled were not all that enthused.  And, as the post relates, all of the amendments that changes boundaries, changed terminologies, and changed the nuances went down for flaming defeats.

Perhaps this next meeting (without Bob Ward, the town lawyer and a few others)  had a bit to do with it:  Jane Cormier and Susan Olsen went back to talk about some of the items that the Board conveniently left out of their “information session” (as Mom always told me, there’s lying by commission and lying by omission).  Yes, some of these segments go for a while (the meeting went two hours plus) but are VERY much worth your time – especially in the reactions, the questions, and discussions of the residents that showed up. I am betting that no small amount of Trust evaporated that night.

Introduction to the paperwork, players, and their roles in why and how the Feds want to change your zoning laws & the Regional Planning Commissions’ legislative goals

Analysis of some of the zoning changes that the Town Planner / Planning Board saw fit not to mention – and HUD’s “substantial involvement and NHFHA demands on Sanbornton.

 Dogma over Truth – Crony Capitalism, truth about Workforce Housing Zoning and tax credit melding into lawsuit “scares”

 Westchester NY is seeing what Sanbornton could – the bullying by the Feds (the Federal Govt’s HUD, EPA, and DOT and their Sustainable Communities Initiative) after signing that “voluntary” first document.

Q&A, various discussions, Zoning Maps – why are they changing the definitions?, Workforce Housing as a stalking horse for slipping in new land use regulations, Cluster Development definition discussion.

 Amendment 4, Regional Planning Commission now want to be allowed to take on their OWN long term debt, Scare tactics, Is the Town Planner lying (a Right To Know demand has been filed!)

(H/T: Rosemary)

>