Pickerington Area Taxpayers Alliance

Need a track record

I think most township residents would tell you to stick your merger up your pootie....Part of that is a no new tax attitude, the fact that they have excellent service now why pay more and that the past city administration was considered a ''clown act'' for a very long time.

If the new city adminstration can set a new direction , prove that it can stick and ensure that the ''Gray gang'' does not come back into power, you may have a shot at least the education part. I think most township residents want to see every other possiblity for cooperation and growth control exhausted before any merger would be seriously considered. I believe there are lots of possibilities to explore and implement before we go to merger. Those possibiblites will only come to fruition if we have slow growth trustees, we need two new trustees.

By the observer who takes action

look at when these were zoned

I think the city approving 600 permits in one year really compares to the 1280 lots available in the township. Clearly the rate in the city exploded and had to be shut down.

Here is when these Township developments were rezoned:
Meadowmoore: It is only 112 homes not 150 (2001)

Haaf Farms , rezoned in 1994

Spring Creek, (1995)

Spring Creek Condos: 125 plus 1995 (condos are almost built out)

Wellington PARK (not place)336 single family 100 condos, 2001

Violet Meadows: 125 plus (1997)

Woodstream: 140 (2001)

It used to be that the 150 or so new homes in Violet and the 120 or so new homes in the city overwhelmed our schools....we complained then. But then the Gray/Bushman machine geared up in 1999 and the city wanted to be everything to everybody...and poof... what we thought was bad got much...much worse.

WE need to go back to what was bad before and move the numbers LOWER from there,across the board, not what we are looking at now.





By The observer

We still have over 1200 lots

Observer talked about looking at when these developments were zoned. So if we haven't sold these lots in 9 years why are we zoning even more lots? I don't think these developers are hurting mind you but they are not moving the lots very fast either. The point is on the one hand it is good we have a slow housing market in the township but that could change with more rezoning and incentives. I guess my real concern is the school districts exposure to even more houses. Even though these houses may be at the higher end they still present a negative cash flow to the school if they are built.

The real exposure is that the Township zoned everything residential a few years back and now they must do zoning changes to move it back to commercial or something other than R-1 residential. This request before them now is to make the zoning a higher density. If the citizens don't protest then they raise the total number of new homes. That is very risky for the area and it burns people out trying to keep up with these developers who have much more time, money and energy to force through their zoning changes.

hummm H & G LLC ?

Maybe it's time to do some homework on this LLC that wants to develop here?