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Vote for another SCHOOL bond issue? Not anytime soon.
Why would I willingly allow my property taxes to increase just so a group of developers can continue to bend us over and have their way.
The developers come into our school district, build high density developments, maybe contribute token amounts and then run full page ads in the paper bragging about their houses for sale in the EXCELLENT PICKERINGTON SCHOOLS.
The developers are the cause of the problem. They sued the citizens when they didn?’t get their way costing us big money. Now you want to reward them by building them more schools?
Ya don't seem them doing this in NAWBANY, where they live, do you?
As Dr. Phil would say, ?“GET REAL?”
By Dr. Phil
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Where's the growth?
This community has been bent over for years now with the builders calling the shots. Now we have the schools going off on their own with no regard for a coordinated effort with the City to build schools where the growth isn't.
So here is the question. If as some that support this new bond issue say that all of the growth is in the City of Pickerington then why are we building an elementary school in Sycamore Creek and the other far away from the growth at Refugee and Pickerington Roads? Does someone on the school board have a brother-in law selling schools buses?
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No, YOU get real
You say you will not ''reward'' the builders by voting to build new schools.
Since the new developments have been allowed to proceed over the years without thought for how it will have an impact on the schools, please tell me how we will house and educate the kids who will be coming into the PLSD.
You are, in effect, punishing the people who move in, not the builders. The builders will get their money. They build homes, people want them, and we grow.
A realistic growth plan/moratorium in the past would have been the solution, but the powers that be did not give a thought to the schools, and past school boards and administrations were reluctant to do anything, either, other than say, ''Please restrain growth''. No one was organized enough to get the message out that there needed to be wholesale changes, and that a continuation of the past practices would have severe consequences, both to the school district and certain political careers.
We are finally at the point where changes have been made, but we are still fighting the actions of the past, and will continue to do so for years to come.
I do not know how the process of platting and approval works in the city or the township. Unfortunately, one or both entities enacting a 100% no-growth ordinance for X number of years, however desirable, would never stand up in the courts, no matter how much sense it really makes.
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School Sites?
I believe land in Sycamore Creek was donated to the district, so that would be why there is a plan to put an elementary school there.
I do not recall any other site identified, as yet, but I may have missed that. There was, at one time, some thought to putting an elementary on the North site, but it appears that the majority of the board is looking at a middle school for that site as of now, one that may possibly house any Lakeview overflow as well.
Isn't there a large development planned for Refugee & Pickerington roads, or am I thinking of something else for there?
With Diley, while there may be 2000 homes plotted, we don't as yet know how fast they will come ''on line'', so perhaps there is thinking to put an elementary in the North area to accommodate growth up there?
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