Pickerington Area Taxpayers Alliance

Can't you read?

According to the notice about the rezoning, it states that the request is for 210 single family houses.

NW club and their candidates

For years now those in the Township have complained about the rate of growth within the City of Pickerington. I have seen posting here on this web site that said it was township members of the NW Republican Club that engineered the over throw in the city in November of 2003. They all were so proud of themselves at the NW club that they defeated all of the candidates that the Pickerington area club had endorsed. The township residents have attention deficient memory problems when looking at the Pickerington Area Republicans. Terry and Harry were both endorsed by the Pickerington Area Club in 2001. Folks there is a reason for that and they are tied to the developers and they will now be tasked with doing the developers bidding in the township.

On Tuesday April 20th the City Council will more than likely blow away the current proposed Pickerington Waste Water expansion plan. Below is a posting saying that the Ohio EPA will sue and force Pickerington to expand the plant that amount. The Ohio EPA will only force the City to provide sewer service to its residents and the current permit allows the city to dump 1.8 MGD into the Sycamore Creek. That is more than enough sewer service for the city residents. What they will do if the city declines the additional 1.7 MGD capacity into the creek and that is to give that capacity to the county's Fairfield Utilities. For the most part the township residents have no control over the county. They would if they had Home Rule but Terry and Harry are dead set against it.

The problem now is that the developers will demand and they will start buying up township land and develop there. The fact that the township will demand low density developments means very little to the bottom line for the schools. In the past (before 11/4/03) the market was shared between Pickerington and Violet Township. Now that will shift big time to the township.

I know Terry and Harry are very proud of the Kroger store and other commercial developments. How do they provide the needed infrastructures to support these developments? At their last meeting they are projecting a $4 or $5 million on their CIP deficient because they can't tax and they can't borrow. They can't do anything as a township. They now must try to get a grant or a handout from someone else. Part of that handout will be coming from residents of Pickerington through their income taxes to the sate and their property taxes to that county. There is something basically wrong with this system. This is because the township resident are just too damn greedy to pay a half percent to the city because they don't want to merge.

Folks you will pay much more in the long run.

Options to Buy

Yes I can read. This is different from the 214 homes on Refugee. This property may not have transfered yet. The lawyers are talking with adjacent property owners and they probably only have options to buy like Bushman had on the Preston Trails property. Options are not public record yet.

In addition.

I see some hypocrite now states it is OK to build hundreds of new homes as long as they are big ticket items on big lots. ''..I would wish more of that kind to be built. Drove around there the other night and it is low density, high quality''

So as long as the schools are flooded with kids whose parents who are loaded it's ok? I must have missed that during the last election process. I thought we wanted to slow the growth entirely, that the schools couldn't handle it - I didn't realize we only wanted to slow the growth for low or mid-level income people.

We wouldn't want used cars in the the school parking lots, we need to keep the new sports cars, the SUV's and BMW's the most popular, well at least at North.

Just because people are pissed at the trustees doesn't mean we've got anything to do with the deposed city officials. I am so happy with the way the election went the last cycle. However, we've only fixed part of the problem. Now will the other major part of the problem get fixed?

I'd also like to clarify that the .6 mgd part of the sewer plant everyone keeps alluding to make the city's sewer plant 1.8 is totally unusable. It is in total disrepair and would have to be completely torn out and rebuilt from the ground up to make it usuable. It was decommissioned for a reason. Please bury the tired argument about the .6 mgd just needing to be fired up and all of sudden the city has extra capacity.

I'm not saying that tearing that out and rebuilding a .6 vs a 2.2 or whatever isn't a possibility, I'm just saying that the current .6 that was decommissioned is unusable and not in a fixable state.

By Oz