Stop Sun-Lan, Stop Ashely Turner, Stop Crossroads Develp.

When is it all going to end? Let me hear ya if you have had enough of the development in Johnston county!

 

resistance is futile...you will be assimilated. :shock:

 

Im sure your neighboors were saying the same thing when your subdivision was built and you moved in.

 

Make it stop... I moved out here 15 years ago in a house that was built for family members of the farm owner across the street. (parents had since died) So I was surrounded by farm land, perfect for my horses.

Now I have no where to ride. I have subdivisions all around me. It is sad.

 

Re: Stop Sun-Lan, Stop Ashely Turner, Stop Crossroads Develp

What prompted this? Is there a specific project you are concerned about?

 

Sorry, I don't live in a subdivision. I'm just getting tired of all the traffic and the hassle of trying to drive somewhere.

 

Move 8)

You can't keep other people from doing what they want with their own property, this is America after all. I'm not thrilled about a huge one going in near me, but it's their land and they can do what they want with it.

 

The County Commissioners are the ones that have the power to regulate growth in the county. They list their meeting dates, times and agenda on their website:
http://www.co.johnston.nc.us/mainpage.cfm?category_level_id=403
The question of a moratorium on new development was on their last agenda, 11/6, and I heard they voted it down. You could contact each one of the members and let them know how you feel. You could go to their meetings. You might want to try to get together a group of like-minded individuals and perhaps request time to make a presentation to them. Bringing it up on a community discussion forum, as you have done, is probably as good a way as any to find out if there are many people with the same opinion.

 

Well it's a good thing they re-elected Fred Smith so he can make it easier for all the developers, especially himself.

 

Now, i don't normally agree with Ted Turner on much of anything. I do wish he still owned the Braves. And, I know we all don't have his money to do these things, but when he wants land for a wild bufallo range, he buys 60,000 acres and puts buffalo there.

If you want a farm to stay a farm and not a a subdivsion with one house per 1/4 acre than you need to make the alternate somehow actractive to the farmer to not sell. Someone need to buy the land (the county?) a private individual (?) and just keep it natural. Like was said above it is their land and if they want to sell to a developer then they should be able to do that.

By the way i also hate that it takes 5-7 minutes to get from Clev Draft house to Lowes.

 

Are there any locals on here that can back me on this? Am I the only one tired of the growth?

 

I'm quite sick of it too. Which is why I voted against THE bigtime proponent of development in this area. Mr. Smith.

 

markfnc is correct. The only way to stop developments in your area is to buy the property and just sit on it. Otherwise the owner of the property has the right to develop the property within the restrictions of the zoning for the property. The owner also has the right to apply for rezoning of their property. Look at the Earp farm north of Clayton that was sold this year. The Earp's could have retained ownership of this property and leased the property for a steeplechase each year. The property had been owned by their family for about 60 years. However the price was right so they elected to sell. We may not like it but the property owner has rights also.
PS Fred Smith is not the one approving these new developments. It's your county and town commissioners.

 

That's not necessarily true. I wanted to buy some property adjacent to mine and was told that I would have to agree build on it as a condition of sale. I told them I didn't want to build, that I wanted to just merge it with my property.

Not sure how and why it works that way around here, just reporting my personal experience.

 

Where's Josey today, he would definitely be in agreement with ya

 

"That's not necessarily true. I wanted to buy some property adjacent to mine and was told that I would have to agree build on it as a condition of sale."

Who advised you would be required to build on the property if you bought it? I don't believe anyone can tell a property owner they have to build.

 

The owner of the property.

You may think you own the property, but "the comminuty" has an awful lot to say about what you can and can't do with it, including taking it away from you if they feel it's for the good of said community.

(Well, technically, they can't just take it away. But they can force you to sell it to them at a "fair price". Of course they are the ones who decide what a fair price is.)

 

OK, I will volunteer to coordinate a meeting of any interested people to discuss what, if anything, can be done to control growth. We can meet in some neutral territory, say a local restaurant, and maybe just hash out ideas. Anybody interested can either speak out here on the forum, or PM me.

 

Maybe you're suggerting that, until we get the infrastructure built up, we need a "Yankee Go Home!" sign at the county line?