Comments on: Additional Development Proposed In Devine Farm Area Would Bring ‘Wildwood Estates’ To 1,067 Lots

By: N.Campbell

N.Campbell — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 22:50:33 +0000

I don’t understand these negative comments, this is exactly what you voted for in ‘16, ‘20 and you will again in ‘24.

By: Bonnie Exner

Bonnie Exner — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 18:12:25 +0000

PREACH ON, Mr Ward and Landhoarder..it’s about time our community wakes up and sees what’s is really going on!!

By: Jlb

Jlb — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 17:43:16 +0000

Vote! District 5 time for a new commissioners

By: LandHoarder, I guess

LandHoarder, I guess — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 17:05:03 +0000

I have several acres of land. If I wanted to build a home for each of my children and put them on that property so that my family could be neighbors, work the land together, take care of each other, I wouldn’t be allowed to do so…..it would be small, incremental growth.
IF I were a landowner AND a politician or developer, I would be allowed to put 3700 houses on that few acres and they would be inches apart….neighbors not really knowing one another, fussing about what someone parks in their yard or who isn’t cutting their grass….all in the name of making money….it would be a fast and huge burden on the infrastructure. Schools, roads, even the grocery stores…they just gotta keep up, right?

Just like the border. I’m absolutely ok with people immigrating legally; taking the proper roads, completing the right steps, etc. But to bombard a system that isn’t ready for hundreds of thousands at a time, that isn’t ok.

By: W. Ward

W. Ward — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 14:08:14 +0000

As a lifelong resident of this county I have seen what happens when local government officials are left to do as they please. The state has made it almost impossible for government by the people. There are to many requirements to qualify. What it amounts to today is money gets you elected. Money gets your back scratched while in office as long as you quietly help those who fund your campaign. Then they appoint those who will approve what the donors want. Term limits for county commissioners will be discussed 2024 & we need them. We need to take back the power & control local elected officials have gained over the populous. Commissioners are still “public servants” & they need to remember that fact. Many of these decisions are being made by the nonelected, the appointed, who have no business telling residents what is best. These people need to be held accountable for their decisions or they need to be removed when they show no concern for what the residents want. I said what residents want, not what developers want. The north end is the largest & least represented district or at least it seems that way.

By: Give me a break

Give me a break — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 01:46:28 +0000

I see what you did there, Bill.

At least I hope it was facetious.

By: Lou

Lou — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 22:04:43 +0000

We do not have the infrastructure to support this development. Expand our roads,schools , and first responders. District five development is not at par with what we have. Our leadership needs to act, or be replaced. Election year so vote , and may be change will come.

By: Bill

Bill — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 19:53:27 +0000

I’ve already built my house. I don’t see any honest reason why we’re allowing anyone else to build a house. Just crooked politician allowing people to continue to move here
STOP Building. I’ve already got mine.

By: Bonnie Exner

Bonnie Exner — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 19:53:11 +0000

In 2013 your county commissioners removed ROAD CONCURRENCY and SCHOOL CONCURRENCY ordinances from the Land Development Codes [ these regulations said a developer/ builder COULD NOT BUILD until there were facilities there to handle the new growth]. Tate High has a student population of 2100+ students; Kingsfield Elementary [4 years old] is 40+ over capacity…the newest school ot open last year cost taxpayers $140 million…WHO IS GOING TO PAY FOR THESE NEW SCHOOLS THAT WILL BE NEEDED? IT WON’T BE THE DEVELOPERS/ BUILDERS!

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 18:57:13 +0000

The expansive growth is too much. Including the need of sewer, water, road widening etc. How about the increased school enrollments? To build a school takes at least three years after property has been purchased. I suspect that politicians are being paid off by developers to build all of this….and we all know it’s under the table….