During an email conversation, I was emailed the NH Association of Regional Planning Commissions broad legislative support document – what the local RPCs want the towns and NH Legislature to do. Again, I looked at what SB11 was supposed to do, compared that to what SB11 will allow planners to do, and looked at the agenda of how the RPCs with to “Fundamentally Transform” NH’s lifestyle simple because they know a more “efficient” way to “guide us” – as though New Hampshire hasn’t figured out how to do this over the last 400 years by ourselves.
But, we aren’t trained Planners, are we? When I read over the bill again, I decided to compare what it was put up to be (to make it easier to allow Exeter and Stratham to do a water system together) with how expansive it seemed on the first read through it. And then I read the NHARPC legislative document. So, I just casually put down every disparate area down. Once again, I was floored:
On 5/7/2013 9:20 AM, Skip wrote:
Gee:
- Lakes
- recycling
- water
- energy
- agriculture
- forests
- energy transmission
- methane
- water
- water
- housing
- economic development
- housing, economic development
- mixed use housing
- public transit (in RURAL NH???)
- railroad (such a 18th century idea…)
- congestion mgt (yeah, NH version of that is mostly 6 cars at a single Stop sign)
- smart growth (ie, recreate urban settings)
- sea level rise (such a calamity at about 2 inches every decade or so – rush right out and buy those booties!)
- broadband internet
- local food systems (er, does this mean “farms” and haven’t we already been doing this well for the last three or four hundred years?)
- water
Such an agenda full plate! Thank GOD we have the REGIONAL commissions, full of people I don’t know, to guide us. Who knew we had so few that know so much about all these things? Must be extraordinarily Smart People to take all of these on, wouldn’t you say? And already in place to do all these things one a REGIONAL basis as the document specifies.
And our elected Legislature won’t have to worry about a thing – these folks have just about picked up everything you folks do, eh Senators?
So few to guide us all – this used to take, well, a whole State of people to figure out what was best for each one. Now, thank GOD we have Experts!
SB11 – concentrating on the use and management of water – from a Collective standpoint (with ill regard to private ownership of all). Why is it that Collectivists or the Power Greedy always have what they believe to be a great solipsist reason why they should control something versus we individuals managing as private property? Haven’t they figured out this is like the passenger (er, the RPCs) on a airliner always wanting to tell the pilots to watch out for this and watch out for that or the plane will crash? That the pilot (who “owns” the aircraft while in the air) is cognizant of all the dangers?
After all, his stake in all this is like the rest of the crew and other passengers – the pilot wants to get safely home too. So do “owners” of water and of land.
Have not these Planners learned the lessons of Plymouth and Jamestown – where the only thing that saved them was a strong emphasis on private property after almost dying out living in a Socialist / Collectivist manner (with the Tragedy of the Commons thrown in as a good rib-dig)?
This bill, when and if it comes up again this week, needs to get shut down. Call your Representatives (and Senators, too) and say “come and take it”.
