REMINDER TO CITY LEADERS:WHERE'S THE EQUAL TREATMENT FOR HOME DEVELOPERS?

OPPS! ONLY BRITTAIN DOWNS
IS EXCUSED FROM DONATING
MONEY TO SCHOOLS & ROADS!

Today's Sunday Tennessean article
by Bonnie Burch (1/8/06) tells us
about last Thursday's Town Hall
meeting. She recounts how our city
leaders "wrestled with what specifically
to ask for from developers (i.e. Brittain
Downs) as part of the conditions for
approval."

Ask Bent Creek developers how difficult
it was for city to demand that they build
a road around the town cemetery in l8
months or NO MORE BUILDING PER-
MITS WOULD BE APPROVED..PERIOD!

Then Bonnie quotes the town attorney,
Bob Notestine, saying "he cautioned
that this request (to developers)
shouldn't be a condition of approval
which would take the voluntary nature
out of the equation."

What a sellout! In others words...demand
everything you can get out of Bent Creek...
but don't ask Brittain Downs for anything
because it might not seem to be voluntary.

Question: who does our town attorney
work for?....the city or the developers?

Bonnie's article goes on about one alder-
man asking Brittain Downs to donate
money to our local schools i.e. $1,000
each for 141 lots. Similar to Taramore on
Split Log Road that donated $1,250
for each of their 274 lots.

In our previous post about 1/5/05 Town
Hall meeting we tell you how absolutely
no one on the board, including the Mayor
would second the motion to ask Britttain
Downs for any kind of donation to any-
thing? WHY?????????

"Bend Bent Creek over backwards and
demand they build new road around
cemetery"...but make it look like it was
voluntary and not a condition of
approval??? (per town attorney).

OR...tell Silver Stream to build a new
bridge on Rocky Fork and the road
around the Methodist church but
make it look like it was voluntary
and not a condition of approval???
(per town attorney).

But don't ask Brittain Downs to do any-
thing about Brittain road after their
construction traffic destroys it along
with part of Sunset road. OH NO! Brittain
Downs isn't making enough money. HA!
How about close to $80 Million dollars
on homes up to $700,000 each.

In our previous post go back and read
more about this "give-a-way" with abso-
lutely no equal treatment. Favored treat-
ment, exceptions, twisting policies and
just outright biased voting seems to be
the accepted way of decision making.

Who loses big time in this situation?
The city does...the schools, the fire dept.,
the roads and much more!

2006 is the year for local citizen voters
to organize to move them out of office...
they gotta go...the Mayor...2 aldermen
and most of the appointed people on the
commissions. Now is the time to start
Spring Cleaning early and keep at it until
November when we can vote them out.
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