New PAC is advertising
The first set of advertisements that were sent out at the end of September were financed by a couple of PAC's running under the monikers "Quality Communities".
They laid off for about a week, and now a new advertisement comes from the "REALTORS(R) Quality of Life PAC". I'll be tracking down the donors to that in a future post, but it's obvious from the title alone who is supporting SAX through this ad.
The Plan that is referred to is not necessarily Jeff Sax's plan. In fact, it is a plan mandated by the State Growth management Act, and you can rest assured that if the Legislature had not passed this Act, there would be no plan emanating from Jeff Sax.
And the statement that he has "worked to develop" a plan applies to other members of the County Council as well as Sax. So why should he get credit?
The mitigation fees that is touting amount to nothing more than tokenism. He has proposed to raise the fees, but the amount of money raised from even the increased fees is grossly inadequate to really fix our roads and keep up with the traffic growth that will happen.
As those of us who live in the interface between suburban and rural parts of the county know, the rules the county is using are not adequate to maintain our Quality of Life; and the fact that the County Planning department doesn't even try very hard to enforce the existing rules, means that the effects of what Sax and his friends have been doing is to reduce the Quality of Life for most of us. Most of us thought that 5 acre zoning meant 5 acre zoning, but with Rural Cluster subdivisions there can be high density housing crammed into a low density area, with not much resistance to the developers from anyone except the neighbors.
They laid off for about a week, and now a new advertisement comes from the "REALTORS(R) Quality of Life PAC". I'll be tracking down the donors to that in a future post, but it's obvious from the title alone who is supporting SAX through this ad.
The Plan that is referred to is not necessarily Jeff Sax's plan. In fact, it is a plan mandated by the State Growth management Act, and you can rest assured that if the Legislature had not passed this Act, there would be no plan emanating from Jeff Sax.
And the statement that he has "worked to develop" a plan applies to other members of the County Council as well as Sax. So why should he get credit?
The mitigation fees that is touting amount to nothing more than tokenism. He has proposed to raise the fees, but the amount of money raised from even the increased fees is grossly inadequate to really fix our roads and keep up with the traffic growth that will happen.
As those of us who live in the interface between suburban and rural parts of the county know, the rules the county is using are not adequate to maintain our Quality of Life; and the fact that the County Planning department doesn't even try very hard to enforce the existing rules, means that the effects of what Sax and his friends have been doing is to reduce the Quality of Life for most of us. Most of us thought that 5 acre zoning meant 5 acre zoning, but with Rural Cluster subdivisions there can be high density housing crammed into a low density area, with not much resistance to the developers from anyone except the neighbors.
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